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Speech And Prosody Characteristics Of Adolescents And Adults With High-Functioning Autism And Asperger Syndrome, Lawrence D. Shriberg, Rhea Paul, Jane Mcsweeny, Ami Klin, Donald Cohen, Fred Volkmar

Communication Disorders Faculty Publications

Speech and prosody-voice profiles for 15 male speakers with High-Functioning Autism (HFA) and 15 male speakers with Asperger syndrome (AS) were compared to one another and to profiles for 53 typically developing male speakers in the same 10- to 50-years age range. Compared to the typically developing speakers, significantly more participants in both the HFA and AS groups had residual articulation distortion errors, uncodable utterances due to discourse constraints, and utterances coded as inappropriate in the domains of phrasing, stress, and resonance. Speakers with AS were significantly more voluble than speakers with HFA, but otherwise there were few statistically significant …