Abstract Emotion ability has substantial influence on individuals survival and development as well as mental health. Emotion ability development disorder has become a prominent performance of hearing impaired children, which has attracted the attention of researchers at home and abroad. From the four aspects of emotion recognition, emotion understanding, emotion expression and emotion regulation, this paper sorts out and comments on the previous studies, puts forward the intervention measures in the light of the concrete problems existing in the development, and proposes some suggestions for the curtent study limitations, in order to provide fundamental evidance for promotion of emotion ability of hearing impaired children.

Abstract There are many problems in emotion ability development of hearing impaired children, such as emotion recognition, emotion expression obstacle, emotion understanding limitation and emotion regulation impropriety, etc., which seriously affect their social adaptation and mental health. Making systematic and individualized intervention programs can effectively promote the development of emotion ability of hearing impaired children. Based on the analysis of the characteristics and influencing factors of the emotion ability development of hearing impaired children, this paper reviews the existing intervention studies, and proposes future research directions in view of the deficiencies of existing studies, in order to provide reference for the research on emotion ability intervention of hearing impaired children.