Open AccessUsing animated vehicles with real emotional faces to improve emotion recognition in Chinese children with autism spectrum disorder
Author(s) -
Yonghong Yan,
Chuanshi Liu,
Lin Ye,
Yangyang Liu
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
plos one
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.99
H-Index - 332
ISSN - 1932-6203
DOI - 10.1371/journal.pone.0200375
Subject(s) - autism spectrum disorder , intervention (counseling) , facial expression , emotional expression , emotion recognition , facial expression recognition , psychology , typically developing , autism , vocabulary , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , facial recognition system , cognitive psychology , psychiatry , communication , pattern recognition (psychology) , linguistics , philosophy , neuroscience
The objective of the present study was to conduct an intervention study which aimed to improve emotion recognition for Chinese children with ASD by using animated vehicles with real emotional faces. A total of 21 children participated in the current study; participants consisted of 14 children (2 girls) with a formal diagnosis of ASD and 7 typically developing children. Participants were measured on emotional vocabulary and situation-facial expression matching before and after the intervention. Results indicated that the intervention significantly improved ASD children’s emotion recognition compared to their pre-intervention scores. Our findings suggest that this emotional recognition intervention using animated vehicles (i.e. The Transporters) is an effective early intervention for Chinese children with ASD.