Dyssemia
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Dyssemia is a term coined by psychologists Marshall Duke and Stephen Nowicki in their 1992 book, Helping The Child Who Doesn't Fit In. It is applied to difficulties in the use of nonverbal cues in interpersonal relationships.
Children and adults with dyssemia have problems in either reading (decoding) or producing (encoding) interpersonal information in the form of postures, gestures, facial expressions, voice tone, use of space, use of time, clothing, make up, and touch. Dyssemia is associated with problems in the establishment and maintenance of interpersonal relationships and is often at the bottom of people's social and vocational troubles. Dyssemia can be remediated through a variety of programs designed to assess its presence and alter its adverse impact.
Both Duke and Nowicki are professors at Emory University.
[edit] References
- Nowicki, S. & Duke, M. (1992) Helping the Child Who Doesn't Fit In. Atlanta: Peachtree Publishers.
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