The Perception and Identification of Facial Emotions in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorders Using the "Let's Face It!" Emotion Skills Battery

James W. Tanaka; Julie M. Wolf; Cheryl Klaiman; Kathleen Koenig; Jeffrey Cockburn; Lauren Herlihy; Carla Brown; Sherin S. Stahl; Mikle South; James C. McPartland; Martha D. Kaiser; Robert T. Schultz

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry Vol. 53, No. 12 (December 2012) pp. 1259–1267

Background: Although impaired social-emotional ability is a hallmark of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), the perceptual skills and mediating strategies contributing to the social deficits of autism are not well understood. A perceptual skill that is...