Quantitative analysis of disfluency in children with autism spectrum disorder or language impairment.

ABSTRACT: Deficits in social communication, particularly pragmatic language, are characteristic of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Speech disfluencies may serve pragmatic functions such as cueing speaking problems. Previous studies have found that speakers with ASD differ from typically developing (TD) speakers in the types and patterns of disfluencies they produce, but fail to provide sufficiently detailed characterizations of the methods used to categorize and quantify disfluency, making cross-study comparison difficult. In this study we propose a simple schema for classifying major disfluency types, and use this schema in an exploratory analysis of differences in disfluency rates and patterns among children with ASD compared to TD and language impaired (SLI) groups. 115 children

SUBMITTER: MacFarlane H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5352011 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature