ERIC Number: EJ1419159
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
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Serious Game the Emotion Detectives Helps to Improve Social-Emotional Skills of Children with Neurodevelopmental Disorders
British Journal of Educational Technology, v55 n3 p1126-1144 2024
Children with neurodevelopmental disorders often have social-emotional difficulties. Serious games can be used to support their social-emotional learning. This study investigated if 6-10-year-old children with autism spectrum condition, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and developmental language disorder would improve their emotion discrimination skills by playing a serious game. Intervention (n = 30) and control groups (n = 20), comprising children with neurodevelopmental disorders, and a group of typically developing (TD) age peers (n = 106), completed six emotion discrimination tasks. ABA research design was applied in this study. Prior to the game intervention, children with neurodevelopmental disorders were significantly delayed in relation to their TD age peers in all tasks. After playing the game for two months, the children in the intervention group had significantly improved their emotion discrimination skills in four tasks, whereas the control group had significantly advanced in only one task without practice. Intervention gains were maintained at the one-month follow-up. Parents reported that the children in the intervention group somewhat improved their emotion recognition and behavioural skills in daily life in comparison to the control group. Implications for practice are discussed.
Descriptors: Social Emotional Learning, Educational Games, Skill Development, Neurodevelopmental Disorders, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Children, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Language Impairments, Psychological Patterns, Play
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