Sarah researches the role of language in understanding and regulating emotions, and how language disorders might impact children’s emotion management. Five to seven percent of children in classrooms might have trouble with language and need extra help. Conversations with caregivers help children learn to distinguish between different emotions and regulate their emotional reactions. Children can learn to regulate their emotions using self-talk, which is a way to internalise the process of reappraising emotional situations. Sarah shares how teachers can help kids with language disorders express and regulate their emotions.
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“Language allows us to learn about emotions and to learn how to regulate our emotions using these types of strategies.”
Sarah Griffiths
Sarah Griffiths
Sarah Griffiths (PhD) is a Lecturer in the Department of Language and Cognition in the division of Psychology and Language Sciences at UCL. She is part of the LiLac Lab, which runs the Surrey Communication and Language in Education Study, a 10-year longitudinal study of children’s language development and associated outcomes. Sarah’s research focuses on understanding links among language, emotion processing, and mental health in young people with neurodevelopmental conditions. She has a PhD in Psychology from the University of Bristol, where she studied emotion recognition in autism spectrum conditions.
Sarah Griffiths
