Emotion recognition/understanding ability in hearing or vision-impaired children: Do sounds, sights, or words make the difference?

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 789-800

  Dyck, Murray J ^a   Farrugia, Charles ^b   Shochet, Ian M ^b   Holmes Brown, Martez ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Blind; Conversation; Deaf; Emotion recognition; Empathy; Language

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; HEARING IMPAIRMENT; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RECOGNITION; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SOUND; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VOCALIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; EMOTIONS; EMPATHY; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; HEARING LOSS; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISION DISORDERS; VOICE;

EID: 2342418424     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00272.x     Document Type: Article

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