Emotional facial and vocal expressions during story retelling by children and adolescents with high-functioning autism

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1035-1044

  Grossman, Ruth B ^a,b   Edelson, Lisa R ^c   Tager Flusberg, Helen ^c  

^a EMERSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Facial expressions; Production; Prosody; Social communication

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PILOT STUDY; PRODUCTION; PROSODY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL COMMUNICATION; SPEECH; VIDEORECORDING; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT; PSYCHOLOGY;

AUTISM; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS; PRODUCTION; PROSODY; SOCIAL COMMUNICATION;

ADOLESCENT; AUTISTIC DISORDER; COMMUNICATION; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; HUMANS; INFANT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PILOT PROJECTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPEECH; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; VOICE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84879530067     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/1092-4388(2012/12-0067)     Document Type: Article

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