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Swann, Zoe; Daliri, Ayoub; Honeycutt, Claire F. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2022
Purpose: The StartReact effect, whereby movements are elicited by loud, startling acoustic stimuli (SAS), allows the evaluation of movements when initiated through involuntary circuitry, before auditory feedback. When StartReact is applied during poststroke upper extremity movements, individuals exhibit increased muscle recruitment, reaction…
Descriptors: Acoustics, Auditory Stimuli, Repetition, Speech Communication
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Yan, Jinting; Chen, Fei; Gao, Xiaotian; Peng, Gang – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2021
Purpose: It has been reported that tone language-speaking children with autism demonstrate speech-specific lexical tone processing difficulty, although they have intact or even better-than-normal processing of nonspeech/melodic pitch analogues. In this early efficacy study, we evaluated the therapeutic potential of Auditory-Motor Mapping Training…
Descriptors: Tone Languages, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Mandarin Chinese
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Smith, Beth A.; Tuduri, Eddie; Mostovoy, Emily; Pannell, Denise; Landon, Chris – Journal of the American Academy of Special Education Professionals, 2019
The Rhythmic Arts Project (TRAP) curriculum integrates visual, tactile, auditory and speech experiences through rhythmic drumming actions to address life skills. We evaluated life skills before and after participation in TRAP in a school-based setting in children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Participants were 23 children in grades 6-12 in…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Music Activities, Special Education
Esch, Barbara E.; Carr, James E.; Grow, Laura L. – Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis, 2009
Evidence to support stimulus-stimulus pairing (SSP) in speech acquisition is less than robust, calling into question the ability of SSP to reliably establish automatically reinforcing properties of speech and limiting the procedure's clinical utility for increasing vocalizations. We evaluated the effects of a modified SSP procedure on…
Descriptors: Autism, Reinforcement, Preschool Children, Speech Communication
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Spaulding, Tammie J.; Plante, Elena; Vance, Rebecca – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2008
Purpose: The present study was designed to investigate the performance of preschool children with specific language impairment (SLI) and their typically developing (TD) peers on sustained selective attention tasks. Method: This study included 23 children diagnosed with SLI and 23 TD children matched for age, gender, and maternal education level.…
Descriptors: Speech Communication, Language Impairments, Attention Span, Preschool Children