scholarly journals Social Cognition in Neurodevelopmental Disorders and Epilepsy

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grazia Maria Giovanna Pastorino ◽  
Francesca Felicia Operto ◽  
Chiara Padovano ◽  
Valentina Vivenzio ◽  
Chiara Scuoppo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Emotion Recognition ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Focal Epilepsy ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Typical Development ◽  
Learning Disorder ◽  
Verbal Intelligence ◽  
Specific Learning Disorder ◽  
Specific Learning

Introduction: The purpose of our study was to perform a comparative analysis of social cognition in children and adolescents with epilepsy, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), specific learning disorder (SLD) and in typical development (TD) controls. The secondary aim was to relate social cognition to some clinical and demographic characteristics.Methods: Our work is a transversal observational study. The recruits were 179 children and adolescents aged between 6 and 18 years diagnosed with epilepsy, ASD, or SLD and 32 subjects with TD. All the participants underwent neuropsychological assessment of Emotion Recognition (ER) and Theory of Mind (ToM) skills.Results: All three clinical groups performed significantly worse than controls in ER and ToM. The ASD group achieved significantly lower performance than the other groups; however, the scores of SLD and epilepsy groups were comparable. The ER performances are related to non-verbal intelligence only in the group with epilepsy.Conclusion: Children and adolescents with focal epilepsy, SLD, or ASD may present a deficit of varying extent in emotion recognition and ToM, compared with TD peers. These difficulties are more pronounced in individuals with ASD, but impairment worthy of clinical attention also emerges in individuals with SLD and epilepsy.

Stress in mothers of children with neurodevelopmental disorders

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ghorban Hemati Alamdarloo ◽  
Farzad Majidi
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Neurodevelopmental Disorders ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Learning Disorder ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Specific Learning Disorder ◽  
Specific Learning

Purpose Most parents experience stress when their children are diagnosed with some kind of disability. This paper aims to compare the level of stress among mothers of children with neurodevelopmental disorders. Design/methodology/approach Research sample consisted of 150 mothers of children with neurodevelopmental disorders (50 mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder, 50 mothers of children with intellectual disability and 50 mothers of children with specific learning disorder selected by convenience sampling). The Stress Response Inventory was used for measuring stress. One-way analysis of variance, multivariate analysis of variance and Scheffe post hoc tests were used for data analysis. Findings The results showed that the stress of mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder was significantly higher than to the other groups of mothers. It was also observed that the stress of mothers of children with intellectual disability was significantly higher than the mothers of children with the specific learning disorder. Originality/value Therefore, designing and implementing preventive and interventional programs to decrease the stress of mothers of children with neurodevelopmental disorders, especially mothers of children with autism spectrum disorder is necessary.

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