| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺中教育大學 === 特殊教育學系碩士班 === 99 === This study utilized survey research method to explore the status quo and differences of recognizing emotion among children with William Syndrome (WS) and Autistic Disorder. The participants were a total of 75 pupils divided into normal, WS, and Autistic Disorder 3 groups with 25 pupils respectively. The instrument was “Situational picture play by computer multimedia test” (SPCM) made by the researcher. The data were analyzed by Kruskal–Wallis one-way analysis of variance by ranks of non-parametric test and post hoc test. The results were as follows:
1.With regard to recognizing emotions, normal pupils were significantly better than pupils with Autistic Disorder or WS, whereas those with Autistic Disorder also significantly better than the pupils with WS.
2.As for the subcategory of recognizing emotions, the three groups scored higher in recognition of facial expressions than in identification of situational cue.
3.With regard to "recognizing emotions of facial expressions from real people," normal pupils were significantly better than pupils with Autistic Disorder. In “recognizing face of Cartoon characters,” there was no significant difference among the three groups.
4.Concerning the “situational cue,” normal pupils were significantly better than pupils with WS, whereas there was no significant difference between normal pupils and Autistic Disorder.
5.As for the identification of “desired-based emotions” and “belief-based emotions,” the normal and Autistic Disorder groups were significantly superior to the WS group.
The major findings indicate that students with Autistic Disorder or WS have weaker emotion recognizing abilities than the normal students. Therefore, this study suggests that educators improve the emotions recognizing abilities of pupils with Ws or Autistic Disorder by teaching them to observe “facial expressions” and “situational cue” to recognize others’ emotion correctly.
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