Uh and um in children with autism spectrum disorders or language impairment

Autism Research

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 854-865

  Gorman, Kyle ^a   Olson, Lindsay ^a,b   Hill, Alison Presmanes ^a   Lunsford, Rebecca ^a,b   Heeman, Peter A ^a,b   van Santen, Jan P H ^a,b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BioSpeech Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

autism spectrum disorders; conversational reciprocity; disfluency; fillers; language impairment; pragmatic language; social communication

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; COMMUNICATION SKILL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPEECH AND LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84982245255     PISSN: 19393792     EISSN: 19393806     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aur.1578     Document Type: Article

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