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Title: | Emotional prosody perception and its association with pragmatic language in school-aged children with high-function autism | Authors: | FENG-MING TSAO | Keywords: | High function autism; Pragmatics; Prosody perception; School-aged children; Social adaptation | Issue Date: | 2015 | Journal Volume: | 37 | Start page/Pages: | 162-170 | Source: | Research in Developmental Disabilities | Abstract: | Emotional prosody perception is essential for social communication, but it is still an open issue whether children with high-function autism (HFA) exhibit any prosodic perception deficits or experience selective impairments in recognizing the prosody of positive emotions. Moreover, the associations between prosody perception, pragmatic language, and social adaptation in children with HFA have not been fully explored. This study investigated whether emotional prosody perception for words and sentences in children with HFA (. n=. 25, 6-11 years of age) differed from age-matched, typically developing children (TD, n=. 25) when presented with an emotional prosody identification task. The Children's Communication Checklist and Vineland Adaptive Behavior Scale were used to assess pragmatic and social adaption abilities. Results show that children with HFA performed poorer than TD children in identifying happy prosody in both emotionally neutral and relevant utterances. In contrast, children with HFA did not exhibit any deficits in identifying sad and angry prosody. Results of correlation analyses revealed a positive association between happy prosody identification and pragmatic function. The findings indicate that school-aged children with HFA experience difficulties in recognizing happy prosody, and that this limitation in prosody perception is associated with their pragmatic and social adaption performances. ? 2014. |
URI: | http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84914095573&partnerID=MN8TOARS http://scholars.lib.ntu.edu.tw/handle/123456789/392835 |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.ridd.2014.11.013 | SDG/Keyword: | anger; Article; autism; child; clinical article; clinical assessment; communication skill; controlled study; disease association; emotional prosody perception; happiness; high function autism; human; language ability; male; perception; sadness; school child; semantics; social adaptation; social interaction; stimulus response; autism; case control study; emotion; interpersonal communication; pathophysiology; psychology; social adaptation; speech perception; Autistic Disorder; Case-Control Studies; Child; Communication; Emotions; Humans; Male; Social Adjustment; Social Perception; Social Skills; Speech Perception |
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