Hearing Status Affects Children's Emotion Understanding in Dynamic Social Situations: An Eye-Tracking Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

For children to understand the emotional behavior of others, the first two steps involve emotion encoding and emotion interpreting, according to the Social Information Processing model. Access to daily social interactions is prerequisite to a child acquiring these skills, and barriers to communication such as hearing loss impede this access. Therefore, it could be challenging for children with hearing loss to develop these two skills. The present study aimed to understand the effect of prelingual hearing loss on children's emotion understanding, by examining how they encode and interpret nonverbal emotional cues in dynamic social situations.

Design

Sixty deaf or hard-of-hearing (DHH) children and 71 typically hearing (TH) children (3-10 years old, mean age 6.2 yea

SUBMITTER: Tsou YT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8221710 | biostudies-literature | 2021 July/Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature