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SUMMARY:Aspects of prosody and language in autism - Sue Peppe\, Queen Marg
 aret University\, Edinburgh\, UK
DTSTART:20090120T160000Z
DTEND:20090120T173000Z
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CONTACT:Susan Rolfe
DESCRIPTION:People with autism are often perceived to have atypical prosod
 y. This\, coupled with the language impairment that is a diagnostic featur
 e of autism\, raises questions about the relationship between prosody and 
 language in language acquisition. Recent projects have investigated recept
 ive and expressive prosody skills in school-age children with high-functio
 ning autism spectrum conditions and compared them with those of \nage-matc
 hed and language-matched typically-developing children. Results suggest th
 at while some prosodic skills are preserved in autism\, others are impaire
 d\; and that although there are strong correlations between prosody and la
 nguage skills the relationship between the two is complex and requires fur
 ther research.
LOCATION:GR-06/07\, English Faculty Building
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