Smit Lidy, Knoors Harry, Hermans Daan, Verhoeven Ludo, Vissers Constance
Royal Dutch Kentalis, Kentalis Academy, St. Michielsgestel, Netherlands.
Behavioural Science Institute, Learning and Plasticity, Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
Front Psychol. 2019 Jul 3;10:1488. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01488. eCollection 2019.
Adolescents with developmental language disorders (DLDs) and adolescents who are deaf or hard of hearing (D/HH) are at greater risk of social emotional problems. These problems may not only be attributed to communication and language problems but, at least in part, to Theory of Mind (ToM) deficits as well. In this mini review, an overview is provided of studies on social emotional functioning and ToM performance in adolescents with DLD and D/HH adolescents. A possible interplay between social emotional functioning and Theory of Mind is discussed. There is empirical evidence for social emotional problems and ToM problems in both adolescents with DLD and D/HH. We hypothesized that language deficits as seen in adolescents with DLD and impoverished exposure to language and communication, as seen in adolescents who are D/HH can explain differences in social emotional functioning and ToM performance. The present mini review provides a possible framework for the relation between ToM and social emotional functioning in adolescents with communication and language problems, which is mediated by their limited linguistic ability or restricted language exposure and gives suggestions for future research.
患有发育性语言障碍（DLD）的青少年以及失聪或听力障碍（D/HH）的青少年出现社会情感问题的风险更高。这些问题可能不仅归因于沟通和语言问题，至少部分也归因于心理理论（ToM）缺陷。在这篇小型综述中，概述了关于DLD青少年和D/HH青少年的社会情感功能及ToM表现的研究。讨论了社会情感功能与心理理论之间可能的相互作用。有实证证据表明，DLD青少年和D/HH青少年都存在社会情感问题和ToM问题。我们假设，DLD青少年出现的语言缺陷以及D/HH青少年语言和沟通接触匮乏，可以解释社会情感功能和ToM表现的差异。本小型综述为存在沟通和语言问题的青少年中ToM与社会情感功能之间的关系提供了一个可能的框架，这种关系由其有限的语言能力或受限的语言接触所介导，并为未来研究提出了建议。
