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James M. Bebko, Jessica H. Schroeder, Jonathan A. Weiss (2014). The M c G urk Effect in Children With Autism and A sperger Syndrome. Autism Research, 7(1), 50-59. Wiley.
Abstract
Children with autism may have difficulties in audiovisual speech perception, which has been linked to speech perception and language development. However, little has been done to examine children with A sperger syndrome as a group on tasks assessing audiovisual speech perception, despite this group's often greater language skills. Samples of children with autism, A sperger syndrome, and Down syndrome, as well as a typically developing sample, were presented with an auditory‐only condition, a speech‐reading condition, and an audiovisual condition designed to elicit the M c G urk effect. Children with autism demonstrated unimodal performance at the same level as the other groups, yet showed a lower rate of the M c G urk effect compared with the A sperger, Down and typical samples. These results suggest that children with autism may have unique intermodal speech perception difficulties linked to their representations of speech sounds. Autism Res 2014, 7: 50–59. © 2013 International Society for Autism Research, Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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