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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research Année : 2015

A Drawing Task to Assess Emotion Inference in Language-Impaired Children

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Purpose: Studies investigating the ability of children with language impairment (LI) to infer emotions rely on verbal responses (which can be challenging for these children) and/or the selection of a card representing an emotion (which limits the response range). In contrast, a drawing task might allow a broad spectrum of responses without involving language. This study used a drawing task to compare the ability to make emotional inferences in children with and without LI. Method: Twenty-two children with LI and 22 typically developing children ages 6 to 10 years were assessed in school during 3 sessions. They were asked to listen to audio stories. At specific moments, the experimenter stopped the recording and asked children to complete the drawing of a face to depict the emotion felt by the story's character. Three adult study-blind judges were subsequently asked to evaluate the expressiveness of the drawings. Results: Children with LI had more difficulty than typically developing children making emotional inferences. Children with LI also made more errors of different valence than their typically developing peers. Conclusion: Our findings confirm that children with LI show difficulty in producing emotional inferences, even when performing a drawing task—a relatively language-free response mode.
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hal-03063273 , version 1 (14-12-2020)

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Nathalie Vendeville, Nathalie Blanc, Claire Brechet. A Drawing Task to Assess Emotion Inference in Language-Impaired Children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2015, 58 (5), pp.1563-1569. ⟨10.1044/2015_JSLHR-L-14-0343⟩. ⟨hal-03063273⟩
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