The LEAS-C is a performance-based measure of children’s emotional awareness. Children describe how they and another person would feel in a series of everyday social situations; responses are scored for the complexity of the emotion language rather than simply for endorsing a feeling.
Download the administration and scoring supplement (PDF)
Instructions and scoring
The supplement describes 12 scenarios, each followed by questions about the child’s and the other person’s feelings. Spelling and grammar are not scored.
Its scoring overview distinguishes Self Awareness, Other Awareness and Total Awareness and describes increasingly complex emotion responses. Use the supplement and the complete LEAS scoring manual/glossary for actual scoring; the supplement explicitly says the full manual is also needed. This is not a simple self-report sum.