Could linguistic and cognitive factors, degree of autistic traits and sex predict speech disfluencies in autistic young adults and controls?
This study aimed to evaluate the effect of linguistic complexity and individual background variables (i.e. linguistic and cognitive abilities, degree of autistic traits, and sex) on speech disfluencies in autistic young adults and controls. Thirty-two 19- to 33-year-old autistic adults and 35 contro...
| Publicado en: | Clinical Linguistics & Phonetics Vol. 39; no. 3; pp. 215 - 233 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar2025
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