%0 Journal Article
%T Emotions of Children with Special Needs and Its Social Meaning
%A Normaliza Abd Rahim & Noraien Mansor
%J Journal of Sustainability Science and Management
%D 2010
%I 
%X The word emotion refers to a broad repertoire of perceptions, expressions of feelings and bodily changes. Emotion is a feeling that is private and subjective, a state of psychological arousal, an expression or display of distinctive somatic and autonomic responses and actions commonly ¡°deemed¡±, such as defending or attacking in response to a threat. This paper focuses on selected social stories to be told to a group of children with Asperger¡¯s syndrome in Malaysia. Social stories are a tool for teaching social skills to children with autism, Asperger¡¯s syndrome and related disabilities. The selected social stories would be based on Malaysian culture and the children¡¯s emotions and conversation were videotaped and analysed for its social meaning by using the content analysis approach. There are six basic emotions grouped in three pairs of opposites; joy and sadness, acceptance and disgust, and anger and fear. Four subjects with asperger¡¯s syndrome from a school in Malaysia were chosen for the purpose of this study. Three social stories were read to them repeatedly for two hours a day for three weeks. Subsequently, the children were able to use the social stories in their everyday lives.
%K psychological
%K behaviours
%K syndrome
%K interactions
%U http://jssm.umt.edu.my/files/2012/05/8.Dec10.pdf