Is prosody a diagnostic and cognitive bellwether of autism spectrum disorders?

Speech Disorders: Causes, Treatment and Social Effects

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 159-176

  Diehl, Joshua John ^a   Berkovits, Lauren D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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