The Study of the Emotion Recognition and the Cognitive Failures of Children with Developmental Coordination Disorder

Abstract

Recently, attention has been paid to the Developmental Coordination Disorder (DCD) in children. DCD occurs silently in child development stages; the child is involved with deficiencies that affect his / her social relationships, academic achievement and emotional perception. In this study, we tried to investigate the state of emotion recognition and the cognitive profiles of the children. The purpose of this study was to investigate the emotion recognition and cognitive failures of children with DCD. Methods: This was a descriptive and correlational study. The research sample included 120 students with a developmental coordination disorder. The research tools were Battery test: The Cambridge Mindreading (CAM) Computer Version of Revised Reading the Mind in the Eye Test; The Movement Assessment Battery for Children-Second Edition (MABC-2) skills. For data analysis, confirmatory factor analysis for DCD model was done by using Laserl. Results: The results of the confirmatory factor analysis indicate the fitness of the model. The second root of the squared mean of the test of the case model is closer to zero. This difference is between the predicted value of the model or the estimator and the actual value. That is, estimating the model is near to actual value, therefore the model is approved. In this model, some amount of inertia RMR (0.55) and SRMR (0.666) was an indication of the proper explanation of covariance. Discussion: Study of the state of emotion recognition in children with DCD can help us to provide training programs, therapy and counseling to improve their social skills, selfconfidence and academic achievement.

Motor performance, praxis, and social skills in autism spectrum disorder and developmental coordination disorder

“…Relationships between social and motor skills have been found for both ASD (Sumner et al, 2016) and DCD groups (Cummins et al, 2005;Sumner et al;Vatandoust & Hasanzadeh, 2018), although specific patterns of social and motor ability between these groups is unclear. Vatandoust and Hasanzadeh (2018) reported a positive correlation between motor skill performance (MABC-2) and emotion recognition (facial and voice emotion recognition; r = 0.490) and understanding the mental states of others (r = À0.465) in children with DCD. To date, Sumner et al (2016) is the only study that directly compared relationships between motor and social skills in ASD, DCD, and TD children.…”

“…It has been suggested that these deficits are secondary to the motor impairments, and may be related to exclusion from opportunities to engage in sports or social activities (Cermak & May‐Benson, 2020), developmental delays (Cantell et al, 2003), visual processing impairments (Tal Saban & Kirby, 2019) or other co‐occurring disorders such as social anxiety (Pratt & Hill, 2011). However, recent studies have reported that children with DCD have additional social difficulties with emotion recognition (Cummins et al, 2005; Vatandoust & Hasanzadeh, 2018), eye gaze and general socialization (Sumner et al, 2016).…”

Assessing Complex Emotion Recognition in Children. A Preliminary Study of the CAM-C: Argentine Version

“…It includes the mental operations that are involved in the perception, interpretation, and generation of responses to the intentions, dispositions, and behaviors of others. This allows us to understand, act, and benefit from the interpersonal world (Kennedy & Adolphs, 2012;Vatandoust & Hasanzadeh, 2018). The neural network that underlies these abilities was first described by Brothers and Ring (1992) as "the social brain".…”