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Aljunied, Mariam; Frederickson, Norah – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2013
Central coherence refers to an in-built propensity to form meaningful links over a wide range of stimuli and to generalize over as wide a range of contexts as possible. In children with autism this ability is diminished, and the impact of central coherence deficits in children with autism have previously been observed using static measures of…
Descriptors: Autism, Children, Generalization, Cognitive Ability
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Krahmer, Emiel; Swerts, Marc – Language and Speech, 2005
We describe two experiments on signaling and detecting uncertainty in audiovisual speech by adults and children. In the first study, utterances from adult speakers and child speakers (aged 7-8) were elicited and annotated with a set of six audiovisual features. It was found that when adult speakers were uncertain they were more likely to produce…
Descriptors: Cues, Young Children, Adults, Foreign Countries