ArticlePloS one2017
Quantitative analysis of disfluency in children with autism spectrum disorder or language impairment.
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- The Topography of Disfluency in Spoken Language: A Scoping Review.Folia phoniatrica et logopaedica : official organ of the International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP) · 2026Review
- Disfluencies as a Window into Pragmatic Skills in Russian-Hebrew Bilingual Autistic and Non-Autistic Children.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Using generative AI for the objective assessment of language in healthcare.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Filled Pause Use in Autistic Adults and Their First-Degree Relatives: Gender Differences and Within-Family Associations.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2025Article
- The Use of Filled Pauses Across Multiple Discourse Contexts in Children Who Are Hard of Hearing and Children with Typical Hearing.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Autism Spectrum Disorder and BRIEF-P: A Review and Meta-Analysis.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- "Um" and "Uh" Usage Patterns in Children with Autism: Associations with Measures of Structural and Pragmatic Language Ability.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Article
- Automatic speaker diarization for natural conversation analysis in autism clinical trials.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Combining voice and language features improves automated autism detection.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2022Article
- Brief Report: Linguistic Mazes and Perseverations in School-Age Boys with Fragile X Syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorder and Relationships with Maternal Maze Use.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2022Article
- Evaluating atypical language in autism using automated language measures.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Brief Report: "Um" Fillers Distinguish Children With and Without ASD.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2020Article
- Linguistic camouflage in girls with autism spectrum disorder.Molecular autism · 2017Article
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Abstract
Deficits in social communication, particularly pragmatic language, are characteristic of individuals with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Speech disfluencies may serve pragmatic functions such as cueing speaking problems. Previous studies have found that speakers with ASD differ from typically developing (TD) speakers in the types and patterns of disfluencies they produce, but fail to provide sufficiently detailed characterizations of the methods used to categorize and quantify disfluency, making cross-study comparison difficult. In this study we propose a simple schema for classifying major disfluency types, and use this schema in an exploratory analysis of differences in disfluency rates and patterns among children with ASD compared to TD and language impaired (SLI) groups. 115 children ages 4-8 participated in the study (ASD = 51; SLI = 20; TD = 44), completing a battery of experimental tasks and assessments. Measures of morphological and syntactic complexity, as well as word and disfluency counts, were derived from transcripts of the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule (ADOS). High inter-annotator agreement was obtained with the use of the proposed schema. Analyses showed ASD children produced a higher ratio of content to filler disfluencies than TD children. Relative frequencies of repetitions, revisions, and false starts did not differ significantly between groups. TD children also produced more cued disfluencies than ASD children.
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