Abstract
<p class="0abstract">The perception, empathy, expression and regulation of emotion have been recognized as the determining factors to everyday communication and psychosocial adaptation in children. Deficits in them can cause emotional and social problems and affect everyday life. This paper aims at investigating by reviewing the current clinical and empirical knowledge of psychoemotional and social development as much as emotional intelligence in children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) coexistence looking into the emotion recognition deficits as well as processing, reciprocity and emotional expression deficits noticing and characterizing these children mostly. Moreover they are considering and being studied the technical means and the ways that they could help in the development and growing of social skills and emotional intelligence. The results proclaimed that the therapeutic contribution of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can be determinant.</p>
Highlights
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are two of the most common in prevalence neurodevelopmental disorders of childhood and adulthood that can affect both instrumental and adverse impairments on cognitive and socio - emotional development [1]. These two disorders are diagnosed as separate situations, with the ASD being defined and characterized by significant impairments and deficits in mutual social interaction and communication functioning, as well as a tendency for restricted, repetitive behaviors and interests, while ADHD is characterized by inappropriate development and functionally harmful levels of hyperactivity, impulsivity, and carelessness [2]
Concerning to how the emotional intelligence and the forthcoming ASD and ADHD disorders are related, it has been concluded, from the research material gathered, that the low levels of Emotional Intelligence (EI) can commonly be found in two cases, constituting a significant causal factor in case of the development of untypical social behaviors and emotional deviations in both disorders while at the same time identifying deficient emotional recognition as a key future of the comorbidity type of ASD and ADHD
It is demonstrated that the dysfunction of emotion recognition is indicated both in the heterogeneity of ASD and ADHD as in the comorbidity type of them
Summary
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) are two of the most common in prevalence neurodevelopmental disorders of childhood and adulthood that can affect both instrumental and adverse impairments on cognitive and socio - emotional development [1]. Despite the case of a typical or even a high-level intelligence of people with ASD, their intact cognitive skills often allow them to develop handling strategies to obtain some “compensation” for their social difficulties, instead, the complexity of the factors that appear in social interactions as well as the demand for an immediate and rapid processing of information inevitably puts even the most capable individuals of spectrum to exhibit unstable social behavior. A wide variety of robots with different appearances have been created such as humanoid robots, animatronics robots or mechanical robots with the ability to mimic facial expressions, gestures and other physical and motor skills of humans Both appearance and the functional elements that can be included such as lights, their distinctive voice, songs, and sounds can help to draw children’s attention and provide positive reinforcement to their social interaction. Many different types of social-supportive robots have been created that can be applied to the therapeutic support of children and individuals with ASD and ADHD some of which are referred to a variety of research papers and selectively are presented below
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