Tiffany Woynaroski|Leslie D. Kwakye|Jennifer H. Foss?Feig|Ryan A. Stevenson|Wendy L. Stone|Mark T. Wallace
Multisensory Speech Perception in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Vanderbilt University Medical Center|Oberlin College|Vanderbilt University|John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts|Vanderbilt University|Center for Autism and Related Disorders|University of Washington|John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts|Vanderbilt University
study examined unisensory multisensory speech perception 817 year old children autism spectrum disorders asd typically developing controls matched chronological age sex iq consonantvowel syllables presented visual auditory matched audiovisual mismatched audiovisual mcgurk conditions participants asd displayed deficits visual matched audiovisual speech perception additionally children asd reported visual influence heard speech response mismatched audiovisual syllables wider window time relative controls correlational analyses revealed associations multisensory speech perception communicative characteristics responses sensory stimuli asd results suggest atypical speech perception linked broader behavioral characteristics asd