Computational prosodic markers for autism

Autism

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 215-236

  Van Santen, Jan P H ^a   Prud'Hommeaux, Emily T ^a   Black, Lois M ^a   Mitchell, Margaret ^b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

acoustic; autism; computational; prosody; speech

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ATYPICAL DEVELOPMENT; AUTISM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; HEARING; HUMAN; IMITATION; INSTRUMENT; PHONETICS; PITCH; PREDICTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SPEECH ANALYSIS; STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SPEECH; TEACHING; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; PHONETICS; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 77954366803     PISSN: 13623613     EISSN: 14617005     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1362361310363281     Document Type: Article

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