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Training for face and emotion recognition deficits

Games and activities for children and adults

Antonella Di Vita, Liana Palermo, Maria Rosa Pizzamiglio, Laura Piccardi

Product: Book

Trim size in cm: 21x29,7cm

Pages: 200

ISBN: 978-88-590-2416-3

Publication date: 01/01/2021


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The volume offers specific training for the rehabilitation of processing the recognition of faces and emotions. Useful exercises for people with congenital / developmental prosopagnosia and for children and adolescents with developmental disorders and Autism spectrum disorders.

Through the observation of the human face we can obtain a lot of information, such as age, gender, direction of gaze, and emotions expressed, as well as identifying a person by distinguishing them from others. The ability to collect this information quickly is essential for social interactions.

The training proposed in the volume, consisting of various games and exercises, has resulted in a real improvement for the child in the recognition of faces in everyday life.

The activities
The training contains 16 types of rehabilitation activities and over 300 photocopiable cards, divided into Recognition of faces and Recognition of emotions, materials present in the printed volume and downloadable online.


Introduction
CH. 1 The recognition of the human face
CH. 2 Deficits in the recognition of the human face
CH. 3 Activity guide
Bibliography

SECTION 1 – Recognition of faces
ACTIVITY 1 The eyes: searching and cutting them out
ACTIVITY 2 Tracing and colouring faces
ACTIVITY 3 Matching faces
ACTIVITY 4 Guess Who?
ACTIVITY 5 Find the differences
ACTIVITY 6 The same or different?
ACTIVITY 7 Learning and recognizing unknown faces
ACTIVITY 8 Memory
ACTIVITY 9 Face puzzles
ACTIVITY 10 Face bingo
ACTIVITY 11 Find the person
ACTIVITY 12 Mental images of familiar faces

SECTION 2 – The recognition of emotions
ACTIVITY 13 Recognising emotions
ACTIVITY 14 Identifying emotions from images
ACTIVITY 15 Complete the comic
ACTIVITY 16 Identify the emotions from the story