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2017
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Nawelle Famelart et al., « Teaching emotions to children with Prader-Willi syndrome: The EMOT program », Enfance, ID : 10670/1.d2a391...
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Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a rare genetic disease that causes hormonal and neurodevelopmental disorders. People with PWS have social and emotional difficulties. The few available studies have shown deficits in emotion recognition or comprehension, but these results are not sufficiently precise to propose adapted assessment and interventions based on emotions. The aims of our research were to analyze the emotional deficits presented by children with PWS by developing and testing an intervention program on emotions conducted by the children’s regular therapists, which has never been done before in this population, whereas there are significant needs. Twenty-two 5 to 10-year-old children with PWS were included in experimental vs. control groups; children in the experimental group benefited from the intervention program established by their therapist. The three assessments were performed at home: pre-test and immediate and delayed post-tests. Results show that the intervention program was beneficial for children of the experimental group and enabled them to improve some emotion abilities such as emotional expression production, emotion recognition, and emotion regulation. These results will be discussed in the light of possibilities of enhancement of intervention programs.
