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In order to understand the way emotions figure in developmental disabilities it is necessary first to review their functions in normal, healthy development. With a theoretical framework for viewing the role of the emotion system and discrete emotions in personality and development, it should be possible to delineate the interactions between affective development and growth in the other personality systems in the developmentally disabled child. This exploration will be largely theoretical and speculative, since empirical research with a clear focus on the emotions is still relatively scarce. There have been some significant beginnings in the empirical investigation of emotions in normal and deviant development and these will be reviewed.
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Izard, C.E., Buechler, S. (1981). Theoretical Perspectives on Emotions in Developmental Disabilities. In: Lewis, M., Taft, L.T. (eds) Developmental Disabilities. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-6314-9_21
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