Background: Structural language anomalies or impairments in autistic spectrum disorder
(ASD) are theoretically and practically important, although underrecognised as such. This …

Due to the complex and intricate nature associated with their production, the acoustic-
prosodic properties of a speech signal are modulated with a range of health related effects …

In the past decades, reductionism has dominated both research directions and funding
policies in clinical psychology and psychiatry. The intense search for the biological basis of …

OBJECTIVES: Quantity of talk and interaction in the home during early childhood is
correlated with socioeconomic status (SES) and can be used to predict early language and …

Purpose This research provided a first-generation standardization of automated language
environment estimates, validated these estimates against standard language assessments …

Infants differ substantially in their rates of language growth, and slow growth predicts later
academic difficulties. In this study, we explored how the amount of speech directed to infants …

Early identification of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is essential to ensure that children can
access specialized evidence-based interventions that can help to optimize long-term …

We analyzed the microstructure of child-adult interaction during naturalistic, daylong,
automatically labeled audio recordings (13,836 hr total) of children (8-to 48-month-olds) with …

Background With rates of autism diagnosis continuing to rise, there is an urgent need for
effective and efficient service delivery models. Pivotal Response Treatment (PRT) is …

Children learn words through an accumulation of interactions grounded in context. Although
many factors in the learning environment have been shown to contribute to word learning in …