التعرف على الانفعالات الوجهية لدى الأطفال و المراهقين ذوي اضطراب طيف التوحد

Abstract EN

This study aims to examine the ability to recognize facial emotions (i.e., joy, anger, sadness, fear, surprise, disgust) of individuals with autism spectrum disorder.

The study sample consists of 60 individuals between 5 and 17 years of age (the first group contains 30 individuals with typical development, and the second one contains 30 individuals who were diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder), they were submitted to the Ekman scale for emotion recognition.

The results of this study confirmed that individuals with autism spectrum disorder have a specific disability during facial emotion recognition tasks compared to the first group.

Besides, it has been shown that autists can recognize fear and distinguish it clearly from other emotions.