Fatikhova L.F. Diagnostics of preschoolers’ ability to recognize emotional states

Fatikhova L.F. Diagnostics of preschoolers’ ability to recognize emotional states // Preschool Education Today. 2010, Issue 5 - p. 58-62.

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2010, 5

Lidia F. Fatikhova
PhD in Pedagogy, Assistant Professor, department of Special Education and Psychology, Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “M. Akmullah Bashkir State Pedagogical University”, Ufa, Russia

Abstract

The article presents a method of studying one of the components of social intelligence – the ability of recognizing emotional states, or an empathy. The author advocates the need of study of social intelligence as a compensatory mechanism that facilitates social adaptation of children with developmental issues. The article also describes how preschoolers of different groups do at diagnostic tasks, namely normally developing children, retarded children, and children with general speech impairment. The results of this research on social intelligence could be used for both differential and detailed diagnostic methods for normal children and children with developmental issues.