Emotion Recognition in Children With Down Syndrome: Influence of Emotion Label and Expression Intensity (2017)
Journal Article
Cebula, K. R., Wishart, J. G., Willis, D. S., & Pitcairn, T. K. (2017). Emotion Recognition in Children With Down Syndrome: Influence of Emotion Label and Expression Intensity. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 122(2), 138-155. https://doi.org/10.1352/1944-7558-122.2.138

Some children with Down syndrome may experience difficulties in recognising facial emotions, particularly fear, but it is not clear why, nor how such skills can best be facilitated. Using a photo-matching task, emotion recognition was tested in child... Read More about Emotion Recognition in Children With Down Syndrome: Influence of Emotion Label and Expression Intensity.

Collaborative learning: comparison of outcomes for typically developing children and children with intellectual disabilities. (2007)
Journal Article
Wishart, J. G., Willis, D., Cebula, K. R., & Pitcairn, T. K. (2007). Collaborative learning: comparison of outcomes for typically developing children and children with intellectual disabilities. American journal of mental retardation : AJMR, 112, 361-374. https://doi.org/10.1352/0895-8017%282007%29112%5B0361%3ACLCOOF%5D2.0.CO%3B2%29

Collaborative learning is widely used in mainstream education but rarely utilized with children who have intellectual disabilities, possibly on the assumption that the metacognitive skills on which it capitalizes are less likely to be available. Effe... Read More about Collaborative learning: comparison of outcomes for typically developing children and children with intellectual disabilities..

Understanding of facial expressions of emotion by children with intellectual disabilities of differing aetiology (2007)
Journal Article
Wishart, J. G., Cebula, K. R., Willis, D. S., & Pitcairn, T. K. (2007). Understanding of facial expressions of emotion by children with intellectual disabilities of differing aetiology. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 51, 551-563. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2788.2006.00947.x

Background Interpreting emotional expressions is a socio-cognitive skill central to interpersonal interaction. Poor emotion recognition has been reported in autism but is less well understood in other kinds of intellectual disabilities (ID), with pr... Read More about Understanding of facial expressions of emotion by children with intellectual disabilities of differing aetiology.