Children of parents with sensory disability may feel that their experience helped nurture their sense of empathy. The study was designed to examine the connection between parents’ sensory disability (visual disability to blindness and hearing disability to deafness) and the empathy and emotional literacy of their non-sensory-disabled children. Participants were 77 children aged 7–17 – 37 children of parents with a sensory disability and 40 children of parents with no such disability. Questionnaires to check empathy and emotional literacy were accompanied by a demographic questionnaire. Findings revealed that levels of empathy and emotional awareness of others (a measure of emotional literacy) were higher among children of parents with a sensory disability than among children of parents without a disability. The results expand the literature on that subject and shed light on the important issues of empathy and emotional literacy in families with disability.

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作为父母的眼睛和耳朵：父母有感官障碍的孩子的情感素养和同理心

有感官障碍的父母的孩子可能会觉得他们的经历有助于培养他们的同理心。该研究旨在检查父母的感觉障碍（视觉障碍到失明和听力障碍到耳聋）与其非感觉障碍儿童的同理心和情感素养之间的联系。参与者是 77 名 7-17 岁的儿童——37 名有感官障碍的父母的孩子和 40 名没有这种残疾的父母的孩子。检查同理心和情感素养的问卷附有人口统计问卷。调查结果显示，有感官障碍的父母的孩子的同理心和对他人的情感意识（情绪素养的衡量标准）比没有残疾的父母的孩子更高。