In this study, we employed an eye-gaze paradigm to explore whether children (ages 8–12)
and adolescents (ages 12–18) with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are able to use …

Assessment of prosody is important for diagnosis and remediation of speech and language
disorders, for diagnosis of neurological conditions, and for foreign language instruction …

Much of the recent emphasis on prosody (the melody and rhythm of speech) and its
disorders (dysprosody) has been on cognitive-affective functions attributed to cortical areas …

An expressive disturbance of speech prosody has long been associated with idiopathic
Parkinson's disease (PD), but little is known about the impact of dysprosody on vocal …

Background: Mapping adequacy of receptive prosodic abilities in speakers with hypokinetic
dysarthria due to Parkinson's disease (PD) is useful, because therapy of disturbed …

We address explanatory issues raised by prior findings on the prosody-voice characteristics
of suspected apraxia of speech in children (AOSc). Prosody-voice patterns for 14 adults with …

Prosody can be defined as the rhythm and intonation patterns spanning words, phrases and
sentences. Accurate perception of prosody is an important component of many aspects of …

Prosody can be conceived as having form (auditory-perceptual characteristics) and function
(pragmatic/linguistic meaning). No known studies have examined the relationship between …

Background: Dysprosody is a common feature in speakers with hypokinetic dysarthria.
However, speech prosody varies across different types of speech materials. This raises the …