Can the Emotion Recognition Ability of Deaf Children be Enhanced? A Pilot Study

We evaluated the effectiveness of an 11-lesson psychoeducational program designed to enhance the ability of deaf children to understand the emotional experience of themselves and other people. The "Funny Faces Program" was provided to 14 children, aged 9 to 13, with moderate to profound he...

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Main Authors: Dyck, Murray, Denver, E.
Format: Journal Article
Published: 2003
Online Access:http://jdsde.oxfordjournals.org/content/8/3/348.full.pdf+html
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44893
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description We evaluated the effectiveness of an 11-lesson psychoeducational program designed to enhance the ability of deaf children to understand the emotional experience of themselves and other people. The "Funny Faces Program" was provided to 14 children, aged 9 to 13, with moderate to profound hearing impairments. All children were enrolled in an "oral" education program at a school for the deaf. Alternate forms of the Emotion Recognition Scales (Dyck, Ferguson, & Shochet, 2001) were administered at pretest and posttest. Results indicate significant increases in emotion vocabulary and emotion comprehension but not in the speed or accuracy of emotion recognition (ER), from pretest to posttest. At posttest, children whose hearing loss was moderate to severe did not differ from hearing children in ER abilities but children with profound hearing loss continued to show substantial ability deficits.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-448932017-01-30T15:17:04Z Can the Emotion Recognition Ability of Deaf Children be Enhanced? A Pilot Study Dyck, Murray Denver, E. We evaluated the effectiveness of an 11-lesson psychoeducational program designed to enhance the ability of deaf children to understand the emotional experience of themselves and other people. The "Funny Faces Program" was provided to 14 children, aged 9 to 13, with moderate to profound hearing impairments. All children were enrolled in an "oral" education program at a school for the deaf. Alternate forms of the Emotion Recognition Scales (Dyck, Ferguson, & Shochet, 2001) were administered at pretest and posttest. Results indicate significant increases in emotion vocabulary and emotion comprehension but not in the speed or accuracy of emotion recognition (ER), from pretest to posttest. At posttest, children whose hearing loss was moderate to severe did not differ from hearing children in ER abilities but children with profound hearing loss continued to show substantial ability deficits. 2003 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44893 http://jdsde.oxfordjournals.org/content/8/3/348.full.pdf+html restricted
spellingShingle Dyck, Murray
Denver, E.
Can the Emotion Recognition Ability of Deaf Children be Enhanced? A Pilot Study
title Can the Emotion Recognition Ability of Deaf Children be Enhanced? A Pilot Study
title_full Can the Emotion Recognition Ability of Deaf Children be Enhanced? A Pilot Study
title_fullStr Can the Emotion Recognition Ability of Deaf Children be Enhanced? A Pilot Study
title_full_unstemmed Can the Emotion Recognition Ability of Deaf Children be Enhanced? A Pilot Study
title_short Can the Emotion Recognition Ability of Deaf Children be Enhanced? A Pilot Study
title_sort can the emotion recognition ability of deaf children be enhanced? a pilot study
url http://jdsde.oxfordjournals.org/content/8/3/348.full.pdf+html
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/44893