EARLY PREVENTION IN EXTRA X&Y KIDS: FACIAL EMOTION UNDERSTANDING
The Chromodiversity™ Podcast by My XXY | Chromodiversity™ Foundation
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🔴 "Early Preventive Intervention for Young Children With Sex Chromosome Trisomies (XXX, XXY, XYY): Supporting Social Cognitive Development Using a Neurocognitive Training Program Targeting Facial Emotion Understanding."
It is known that adults with Sex Chromosome Trisomies (SCTs) often have trouble recognizing facial emotions, which can adversely affects lifelong social and professional outcomes. Published in 2022, this paper is the first to evaluate efficacy of facial emotion neurocognitive training in young children with an extra chromosome. .
The authors discovered that by completing a simple 15 minute a day 4 week training program. SCT children aged 4 to 8 not only showed improvement in facial emotion recognition, their ability actually reached a level that could no longer be distinguishe ...