Marie-Carmen Castillo

Exploratory Study of a Scale of Emotional State for Children with Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities (EREEP)

ABSTRACT We are proposing to build a Scale of Emotional Feeling for Children with Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities (EREEP—French acronym for Echelle de la Representation Emotionnelle de l’Enfant Polyhandicape) in order to assess their subjective emotional feeling, based on video films of their facial expressions. We hypothesize that the “actual” emotional states of such children are not in line with the representations that their entourage have. For that purpose, we conducted a research in a day school for children with Intellectual and Multiple Disabilities with 7 children aged 6 to 13 years old. Our main results are discussed.