Abstract
Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) often have difficulties with social and emotional learning, including emotion understanding and inferencing. Five children with DLD, ages 6;4 to 11;9, identified emotions depicted in pictured scenarios over a period of 10 weeks. Emotion categories included happy, sad, anger, fear, surprise, and disgust. Each child's responses were analyzed and plotted on a confusion matrix. In a few cases, children did not interpret the scenario accurately. Even when they interpreted the scenario accurately, all of the children misapplied, overgeneralized, or confused emotion labels in some cases. These errors represented limitations in social and emotional learning that could negatively impact the ability to interact with others, to establish and maintain relationships, and to succeed academically.
Degree
MS
College and Department
David O. McKay School of Education; Communication Disorders
BYU ScholarsArchive Citation
Forbes, Mary Rebekah, "The Ability of Children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD) to Infer Emotions from Pictures: Where's the Breakdown?" (2019). Theses and Dissertations. 7405.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/7405
Date Submitted
2019-04-01
Document Type
Thesis
Handle
http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/etd10690
Keywords
language impairment, developmental language disorder, social communication intervention, emotion understanding, emotion inferencing, school-age children
Language
english