Effectiveness of Group-Play Training on Emotion Recognition for Young Children Who Are Deaf or Hard of Hearing.

TREATMENT of deafness; FEAR; CHILDREN with disabilities; RESEARCH funding; SADNESS; HEARING aids; ANGER; REHABILITATION; CLINICAL trials; GROUP psychotherapy; TREATMENT effectiveness; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; CHI-squared test; PLAY therapy; CONTROL groups; PRE-tests & post-tests; ODDS ratio; HAPPINESS; COMPARATIVE studies; DATA analysis software; CONFIDENCE intervals; HEARING impaired; FACE perception; CHILDREN

The article discusses research which investigated the effectiveness of group-play intervention to enhance the facial emotion recognition (FER) ability of deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) preschool children. It explored the learning procedure for basic emotions such as happiness, sadness, and anger included in the training program, the importance of FER ability in the social interactions of DHH children, and the applicability of group-play activities in classroom settings.