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Reducing Information’s Speed Improves Verbal Cognition and Behavior in Autism: A 2-Cases Report
- Source :
- Pediatrics, Pediatrics, American Academy of Pediatrics, 2017, 139 (6), ⟨10.1542/peds.2015-4207⟩, Pediatrics, 2017, 139 (6), ⟨10.1542/peds.2015-4207⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- HAL CCSD, 2017.
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Abstract
- According to the temporal theory of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs), audiovisual changes in environment, particularly those linked to facial and verbal language, are often too fast to be faced, perceived, and/or interpreted online by many children with ASD, which could help explain their facial, verbal, and/or socioemotional interaction impairments. Our goal here was to test for the first time the impact of slowed-down audiovisual information on verbal cognition and behavior in 2 boys with ASD and verbal delay. Using 15 experimental sessions during 4 months, both boys were presented with various stimuli (eg, pictures, words, sentences, cartoons) and were then asked questions or given instructions regarding stimuli. The audiovisual stimuli and instructions/questions were presented on a computer's screen and were always displayed twice: at real-time speed (RTS) and at slowed-down speed (SDS) using the software Logiral. We scored the boys’ verbal cognition performance (ie, ability to understand questions/instructions and answer them verbally/nonverbally) and their behavioral reactions (ie, attention, verbal/nonverbal communication, social reciprocity), and analyzed the effects of speed and order of the stimuli presentation on these factors. According to the results, both participants exhibited significant improvements in verbal cognition performance with SDS presentation compared with RTS presentation, and they scored better with RTS presentation when having SDS presentation before rather than after RTS presentation. Behavioral reactions were also improved in SDS conditions compared with RTS conditions. This initial evidence of a positive impact of slowed-down audiovisual information on verbal cognition should be tested in a large cohort of children with ASD and associated speech/language impairments.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Audiology
behavioral disciplines and activities
03 medical and health sciences
Presentation
Nonverbal communication
[SCCO]Cognitive science
0302 clinical medicine
Cognition
Temporal theory
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Language Development Disorders
ComputingMilieux_MISCELLANEOUS
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Socioemotional selectivity theory
business.industry
Verbal Behavior
Communication
05 social sciences
medicine.disease
Test (assessment)
Autism spectrum disorder
Child, Preschool
Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health
[SCCO.PSYC]Cognitive science/Psychology
Autism
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
050104 developmental & child psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00314005 and 10984275
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Pediatrics, Pediatrics, American Academy of Pediatrics, 2017, 139 (6), ⟨10.1542/peds.2015-4207⟩, Pediatrics, 2017, 139 (6), ⟨10.1542/peds.2015-4207⟩
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....370a193fc575a02eec3f4ce65f30e4fb
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2015-4207⟩