Abnormal speech spectrum and increased pitch variability in young autistic children

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue JANUARY, 2011, Pages 1-7

  Bonneh, Yoram S ^a   Levanon, Yoram ^b,c   Dean Pardo, Omrit ^d   Lossos, Lan ^c   Adini, Yael ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b NETANYA ACADEMIC COLLEGE   (Israel)

^c Exaudios Technologies   (Israel)

^d Hadassah Academic College   (Israel)

^e Inst for Vision Research   (Israel)

Author keywords

ASD; Autism; Pitch variability; Speech

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC STRESS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PSYCHIATRY; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE MARKER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANTILE AUTISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; PITCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; READING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOUND INTENSITY; SPEECH ANALYSIS; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH DISORDER; SPEECH INTELLIGIBILITY;

EID: 83055163372     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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