Purpose To investigate the perception and production of lexical stress and processing of
affective prosody in adolescents with high-functioning autism (HFA). We hypothesized …

We describe and evaluate an integrative hypothesis for helping to explain the major
neurocognitive features of individuals with Williams syndrome region deletions and …

Prosody, the rhythm and melody of speech, is an important component of effective
communication, and it is an area of difficulty for many populations who struggle with …

Individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are impaired in understanding the
emotional undertones of speech, many of which are communicated through prosody …

This chapter reviews studies of musicality in individuals with Williams syndrome, Down
syndrome, and autism spectrum disorders. Music can be used to assess a wide range of …

Williams syndrome (WS), a neurodevelopmental genetic disorder due to a microdeletion in
chromosome 7, is described as displaying an intriguing socio-cognitive phenotype. Deficits …

Beat perception in music has been proposed to be a human universal that may have its
origins in adaptive processes involving temporal entrainment such as social communication …

Following demand for a prosody assessment procedure, the test Profiling Elements of
Prosody in Speech-Communication (PEPS-C), has been translated from English into …

The aim of this research was to determine the ability level of paralinguistic production and
comprehension in adults with intellectual disability (ID) with regard to the level of their …

The aim of this study was to compare the prosodic profiles of English-and Spanish-speaking
children with Williams syndrome (WS), examining cross-linguistic differences. Two groups of …