Teaching emotion recognition skills to young children with autism: A randomised controlled trial of an emotion training programme

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 53, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 1268-1276

  Williams, Beth T ^a   Gray, Kylie M ^a   Tonge, Bruce J ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autism; emotion recognition; intervention; training

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PERCEPTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECOGNITION; STATISTICS; THEORY OF MIND;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL PERCEPTION; THEORY OF MIND;

EID: 84870243583     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: 14697610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-7610.2012.02593.x     Document Type: Article

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