The psychologist as an interlocutor in autism spectrum disorder assessment: Insights from a study of spontaneous prosody

Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1162-1177

  Bone, Daniel ^a   Lee, Chi Chun ^a   Black, Matthew P ^a   Williams, Marian E ^b   Lee, Sungbok ^a   Levitt, Pat ^b,c   Narayanan, Shrikanth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHILDREN S HOSPITAL LOS ANGELES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Autism spectrum disorder; Children; Dyadic interaction; Prosody; Social communication

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ASSOCIATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; CHILD; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH; SPEECH DISORDERS; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PSYCHOLOGY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPEECH; SPEECH DISORDERS; VOICE QUALITY;

EID: 84905676946     PISSN: 10924388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1044/2014_JSLHR-S-13-0062     Document Type: Article

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