“Listen My Children and You Shall Hear”: Auditory Preferences in Toddlers With Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Purpose: This study tests the hypothesis that toddlers with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) will show differences from contrast groups in preferences for attending to speech. Method: This study examined auditory preferences in toddlers with ASD and matched groups of (a) typical age-mates, (b) age-ma...
| Published in: | Journal of Speech, Language & Hearing Research Vol. 50; no. 5; pp. 1350 - 1365 |
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American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
October 2007
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