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Severe multisensory speech integration deficits in high-functioning school-aged children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and their resolution during early adolescence

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Foxe, John J., Molholm, Sophie, Del Bene, Victor A., Frey, Hans-Peter, Russo, Natalie N., Blanco, Daniella, Saint-Amour, Dave, Ross, Lars A.·2015·Cerebral Cortex

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Under noisy listening conditions, visualizing a speaker's articulations substantially improves speech intelligibility. This multisensory speech integration ability is crucial to effective communication, and the appropriate development of this capacity greatly impacts a child's ability to successfully navigate educational and social settings. Research shows that multisensory integration abilities continue developing late into childhood. The primary aim here was to track the development of these abilities in children with autism, since multisensory deficits are increasingly recognized as a component of the autism spectrum disorder (ASD) phenotype. The abilities of high-functioning ASD children (n = 84) to integrate seen and heard speech were assessed cross-sectionally, while environmental noise levels were systematically manipulated, comparing them with age-matched neurotypical children (n = 142). Severe integration deficits were uncovered in ASD, which were increasingly pronounced as background noise increased. These deficits were evident in school-aged ASD children (5-12 year olds), but were fully ameliorated in ASD children entering adolescence (13-15 year olds). The severity of multisensory deficits uncovered has important implications for educators and clinicians working in ASD. We consider the observation that the multisensory speech system recovers substantially in adolescence as an indication that it is likely amenable to intervention during earlier childhood, with potentially profound implications for the development of social communication abilities in ASD children.

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Authors
Foxe, J. J., Molholm, S., Del Bene, V. A., Frey, H.-P., Russo, N. N., Blanco, D., Saint-Amour, D., & Ross, L. A.
Affiliations
  • City College of New York (US)
  • Syracuse University (US)
  • Adelphi University (US)
Corresponding author
Foxe, John J.
Venue
Cerebral Cortex
Published
2013-08-28
Volume
25
Issue
2
Pages
298-312
ISSN
  • 1047-3211 (ISSN-L)
  • 1460-2199
OpenAlex
W2132545092
Cited by
263
References
87
Citations by year
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FWCI
23.88
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Cerebral Cortex (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (5r01mh085322-05, HD071593)
  • Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities Research Center (P30 HD071593)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (MH 085322)
  • National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (HD071593)
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NIH P30 HD071593, P30HD071593)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Multisensory perception and integration
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
Keywords
autism spectrum disorder, high-functioning children, visual speech perception, background noise, adolescence, developmental changes, social communication, speech intelligibility, neurotypical comparison
MeSH terms
Acoustic Stimulation, Adolescent, Child, Child Development, Child Development Disorders, Pervasive, Child, Preschool, Cross-Sectional Studies, Eye Movements, Humans, Intelligence, Motion Perception, Noise, Photic Stimulation, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Speech Perception, Pattern Recognition, Physiological

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