What automated vocal analysis reveals about the vocal production and language learning environment of young children with autism

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 555-569

  Warren, Steven F ^a   Gilkerson, Jill ^b   Richards, Jeffrey A ^b   Oller, D Kimbrough ^c   Xu, Dongxin ^b   Yapanel, Umit ^b   Gray, Sharmistha ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b LENA Foundation   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MEMPHIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Autism; Automated vocal analysis; Conversational turn taking; Language development; Language input

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUTISM; AUTOMATED VOCAL ANALYSIS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH THERAPY; VOCALIZATION; ADULT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FAMILY; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE TEST; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SPEECH; SPEECH ANALYSIS; TIME;

ADULT; ALGORITHMS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FAMILY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; SPEECH; SPEECH ACOUSTICS; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL LEARNING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 77956230841     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-009-0902-5     Document Type: Article

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