Alyssa Janes, Elise McClay, Mandeep Gurm, Troy Q Boucher, H Henny Yeung, Grace Iarocci, Nichole E Scheerer
PURPOSE: Autistic individuals often face challenges perceiving and expressing emotions, potentially stemming from differences in speech prosody. Here we explore how autism diagnoses between groups, and measures of social competence within groups may be related to, first, children's speech characteristics (both prosodic features and amount of spontaneous speech), and second, to these two factors in mothers' speech to their children. METHODS: Autistic (n = 21) and non-autistic (n = 18) children, aged 7-12 years, participated in a Lego-building task with their mothers, while conversational speech was recorded...
May 4, 2024: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders