Orig. title: The Ability of Children with Mild Learning Disabilities to Encode Emotions through Facial Expressions
Engl. transl.: The Ability of Children with Mild Learning Disabilities to Encode Emotions through Facial Expressions
Keywords
learning difficulties
facial expressions
emotions
learning difficulties, multimodal
neuroscience.
Publication details
| Year: | 2011 |
| DOI: | DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-18184-9_34 |
| Issued: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Start Page: | 387 |
| End Page: | 402 |
| Editors: | Esposito, A.M.; Martone, R.; Müller, V.C.; Scarpetta, G. |
| Authors: | Haddad C.; Laouris Y. |
| Type: | Book chapter |
| Book title: | Lecture Notes In Artificial Intelligence: Toward Autonomous, Adaptive, and Context-Aware Multimodal Interfaces. Theoretical and Practical Issues |
| Publisher: | Springer-Verlag |
| Sample: | Data collected at Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute |
| Implications For Parents About: | Parental practices / parental mediation; Parenting guidance / support |
| Implications For Educators About: | School innovation; Professional development |
| Implications For Policy Makers About: | Stepping up awareness and empowerment; Other |
| Other PolicyMaker Implication: | Opportunities of the use of technology in the classroom |
| Implications For Stakeholders About: | Researchers; Industry; Healthcare |
Abstract
Children with limitations in their abilities to encode and decode emotions through corresponding facial expressions may be excluded from social and educational processes. Previous research has demonstrated that children with learning difficulties may suffer differentially in their ability to recognize and denominate facial expressions that correspond to the basic emotional states. This study evaluates the ability of children with mild learning difficulties to produce seven basic facial expressions (happiness, sadness, anger, afraid, disgusted, confidence, and surprise) in response to verbal commands. The evaluation was based on a subject’s ability to communicate an emotional state correctly to his/her peers. The results show that their ability to produce a facial expression was affected in different degrees and that there exist correlations between the ability to perform certain facial expressions.
Outcome
The study has shown that children with mild learning difficulties suffer in their ability to produce facial expressions that correspond to the six basic emotions and even more the expression “Confident.” Future studies may address underlying neurophysiological and neuro-chemical factors as well as focus on options for inter- vention and design of tailored-made curricula for children with such difficulties.