Développement de la reconnaissance des émotions chez l'enfant avec trisomie 21

We proposed a matching task consisting of pairing an emotional sound and a human face and, after that a noise with an animal. Down syndrome children do not differ with other children in emotional recognition abilities of human faces pictures. Results are compared with those of children with mental retardation and typical children matched on developmental age (K ABC, non-verbal scale). Results do not validate Kasari's presumption concerning with emotional recognition deficit in Down children of 4 years of developmental age mental.