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Canfield, Allison R.; Eigsti, Inge-Marie; de Marchena, Ashley; Fein, Deborah – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2016
Purpose: This study examined narrative quality of adolescents with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) using a well-studied "story goodness" coding system. Method: Narrative samples were analyzed for distinct aspects of story goodness and rated by naïve readers on dimensions of story goodness, accuracy, cohesiveness, and oddness. Adolescents…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Adolescents, Comparative Analysis
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Grossman, Ruth B.; Edelson, Lisa R.; Tager-Flusberg, Helen – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2013
Purpose: People with high-functioning autism (HFA) have qualitative differences in facial expression and prosody production, which are rarely systematically quantified. The authors' goals were to qualitatively and quantitatively analyze prosody and facial expression productions in children and adolescents with HFA. Method: Participants were 22…
Descriptors: Emotional Response, Nonverbal Communication, Children, Story Telling
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Weismer, Susan Ellis; Plante, Elena; Jones, Maura; Tomblin, Bruce J. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2005
This study used neuroimaging and behavioral techniques to examine the claim that processing capacity limitations underlie specific language impairment (SLI). Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to investigate verbal working memory in adolescents with SLI and normal language (NL) controls. The experimental task involved a modified…
Descriptors: Verbal Ability, Word Recognition, Memory, Language Processing