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PhD EXISTENCE 11: Česko-slovenská psychologická konference (nejen) pro doktorandy a o doktorandech: Sborník odborných příspěvků
Aigelová, Eva;Viktorová, Lucie;Dolejš, Martin (eds.);Aigelová, Eva;Viktorov...
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PhD EXISTENCE 11: Česko-slovenská psychologická konference (nejen) pro doktorandy a o doktorandech: Sborník odborných příspěvků
2021
The proceedings of the 11th year of the PhD existence conference: Czech-Slovak conference (not only) for and about doctoral students, with the subtitle'Moving on…', which took place online this year on February 1st and 2nd, 2021. In parallel sections there are contributions from the fields of education, clinical psychology, risk behaviour , and others. This year's conference also included specific topics such as psychohistory or gender psychology, psychoanalytic interpretation of fairy tales, experimental drama, traffic psychology or the support of scientific thinking, as well as global topics such as genetic modification or perception of immigration. And last but not least the contributions examining the various effects of the pandemic on human behaviour - whether traveling, teaching, or coping with psychological stress.
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The Disability Studies Reader
Lennard J. Davis;Lennard J. Davis
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The Disability Studies Reader
2021
Disability studies has gone from being a relatively unknown field to one of increasing importance in the social sciences. The sixth edition of The Disability Studies Reader brings in new topics, scholars, writers, artists, and essays to address links between ableism and imperialism; disability bioethics; and the relationship between disability agency, social policy, and decarceration.There are as many meanings and experiences of disability as there are disabled people, and this diversity ensures that the work of the field will continue to evolve. Fully revised and brought up to date, this volume addresses a wider range of geographical and cultural contexts, and many pay specific attention to the intersections between disability and race, gender, and sexuality. The growing interest and activism around the issue of neuroatypicality is also reflected in a new section on neurodivergence.The Disability Studies Reader remains an excellent touchstone for students in disability studies courses across the disciplines, including the social sciences, English literature, and psychology.
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Conversation and Intonation in Autism
Wehrle, Simon;Wehrle, Simon
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Conversation and Intonation in Autism
2023; Vol. 00014
This book provides an in-depth, multi-dimensional analysis of conversations between autistic adults. The investigation is focussed on intonation style, turn-taking and the use of backchannels, filled pauses and silent pauses. Previous findings on intonation style in the context of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are contradictory, with claims ranging from characteristically monotonous to characteristically melodic intonation. A novel methodology for quantifying intonation style is used, and it is revealed that autistic speakers tended towards a more melodic intonation style compared to control speakers in the data set under investigation. Research on turn-taking (the organisation of who speaks when in conversation) in ASD is limited, with most studies claiming a tendency for longer silent gaps in ASD. No clear overall difference in turn-timing between the ASD and the control group was found in the data under study. There was, however, a clear difference between groups specifically in the earliest stages of dialogue, where ASD dyads produced considerably longer silent gaps than controls. Backchannels (listener signals such as mmhm or okay) have barely been investigated in ASD to date. The current analysis shows that autistic speakers produced fewer backchannels per minute (particularly in the early stages of dialogue), and that backchannels were less diverse prosodically and lexically. Filled pauses (hesitation signals such as uhm and uh) in ASD have been the subject of a handful of previous studies, most of which claim that autistic speakers produced fewer uhm tokens (specifically). It is shown that filled pauses were produced at an identical rate in both groups and that there was an equivalent preference of uhm over uh. ASD speakers differed only in the prosodic realisation of filled pauses. It is further shown that autistic speakers produced more long silent (within-speaker) pauses than controls. The analyses presented in this book provide new insights into conversation strategies and intonation styles in ASD, as reviewed in a summary analysis. The findings are discussed in the context of previous research, general characteristics of cognition in ASD, and the importance of studying communication in interaction and across neurotypes.
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Environmental Issues and Social Inclusion in a Sustainable Era : Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences (ICHSOS 2022), Malang, Indonesia, 1-2 July 2022
R. Iqbal Robbie;Ali Roziqin;Shannaz Mutiara Deniar;Ardik Praharjo;Kenny Roz...
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Environmental Issues and Social Inclusion in a Sustainable Era : Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Humanities and Social Sciences (ICHSOS 2022), Malang, Indonesia, 1-2 July 2022
2023
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and the Paris Climate Agreement are examples of initiatives where countries show recognition of their interconnected interests and goals. This is particularly evident in the case of global environmental issues because they require global decision-making. The emergence of global environmental issues such as climate change, marine pollution and biodiversity loss has brought new challenges to governance and requires political support and innovation of global public policies. In addition, many social problems arise because of the environmental crisis. Environmental Issues and Social Inclusion in a Sustainable Era discusses environmental and social inclusion in a socio-economic perspective. The contributions analyse the management of global environmental problems at local, national and international levels, with a special focus on multilevel governance, innovative public policies, and economic development finance and business. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license. Funded by Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang.
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Thinking with an Accent : Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice
Pooja Rangan;Pooja Rangan
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Thinking with an Accent : Toward a New Object, Method, and Practice
2023; Vol. 00003
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Everyone speaks with an accent, but what is an accent? Thinking with an Accent introduces accent as a powerfully coded yet underexplored mode of perception that includes looking, listening, acting, reading, and thinking. This volume convenes scholars of media, literature, education, law, language, and sound to theorize accent as an object of inquiry, an interdisciplinary method, and an embodied practice. Accent does more than just denote identity: from algorithmic bias and corporate pedagogy to migratory poetics and the politics of comparison, accent mediates global economies of discrimination and desire. Accents happen between bodies and media. They negotiate power and invite attunement. These essays invite the reader to think with an accent—to practice a dialogical and multimodal inquiry that can yield transformative modalities of knowledge, action, and care.
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Learning to Teach in Post-apartheid South Africa: Student Teachers' Encounters with Initial Teacher Education
Yusuf Sayed;Yusuf Sayed
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Learning to Teach in Post-apartheid South Africa: Student Teachers' Encounters with Initial Teacher Education
2018
Teacher education programmes seek to provide student teachers with the knowledge and expertise to provide qualtiy teaching and learning in a diverse and challenging school context. Learning to Teach in post-apartheid South Africa: Student Teachers'Encounters with Initial Teacher Education addresses the complexities of teacher education programmes in preparing students to teach. It adds to the knowledge about teacher education, contributing critical understanding of education and the schooling system. The book provides important insights to deepen researchers, academics, teacher education providers, policy-makers, and students'understanding of the importance to address equity, redress, and quality in South African educaiton in a post-apartheid era. This book further helps to build student teachers'capacities to work creatively and to become active and critical agents of transformation. It ultimately outlines the challenges face in designing and delivering successful Inital Teacher Education programmes, and the impact this has on delivering equitable and qualtiy education.
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Language Disorders From Infancy Through Adolescence : Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, and Communicating
Rhea Paul;Courtenay Norbury;Rhea Paul;Courtenay Norbury
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Language Disorders From Infancy Through Adolescence : Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, and Communicating
2012
Language Disorders from Infancy Through Adolescence, 4th Edition is the go-to text for all the information you need to properly assess childhood language disorders and provide appropriate treatment. This core resource spans the entire developmental period through adolescence, and uses a descriptive-developmental approach to present basic concepts and vocabulary, an overview of key issues and controversies, the scope of communicative difficulties that make up child language disorders, and information on how language pathologists approach the assessment and intervention processes. This new edition also features significant updates in research, trends, instruction best practices, and social skills assessment. Comprehensive text covers the entire developmental period through adolescence. Clinical application focus featuring case studies, clinical vignettes, and suggested projects helps you apply concepts to professional practice. Straightforward, conversational writing style makes this book easy to read and understand. More than 230 tables and boxes summarize important information such as dialogue examples, sample assessment plans, assessment and intervention principles, activities, and sample transcripts. UNIQUE! Practice exercises with sample transcripts allow you to apply different methods of analysis. UNIQUE! Helpful study guides at the end of each chapter help you review and apply what you have learned. Versatile text is perfect for a variety of language disorder courses, and serves as a great reference tool for professional practitioners. Highly regarded lead author Rhea Paul lends her expertise in diagnosing and managing pediatric language disorders. Communication development milestones are printed on the inside front cover for quick access. Chapter objectives summarize what you can expect to learn in each chapter.Updated content features the latest research, theories, trends and techniques in the field. Information on autism incorporated throughout the text Best practices in preliteracy and literacy instruction The role of the speech-language pathologist on school literacy teams and in response to intervention New reference sources Student/Professional Resources on Evolve include an image bank, video clips, and references linked to PubMed.
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Disability Studies and Spanish Culture : Films, Novels, the Comic and the Public Exhibition
Benjamin Fraser;Benjamin Fraser
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Disability Studies and Spanish Culture : Films, Novels, the Comic and the Public Exhibition
2013
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library.Disability Studies and Spanish Culture is the first book to apply the tenets of Disability Studies to the Spanish context. In particular, this work is an important corrective to existing cultural studies of disability in Spain that tend to largely ignore intellectual disabilities. Taking on the representation of Down syndrome, autism, alexia/agnosia as well as childhood disability, its chapters combine close readings of a number of Spanish cultural products (films, novels, the comic/graphic novel and the public exhibition) with a broader socio-cultural take on the state of disability in Spain. Fraser is just as comfortable with the work of disability theorists who advocate a social model of disability (such as Lennard J. Davis, Licia Carlson, Eva Feder Kittay, David T. Mitchell, Sharon L. Snyder and more) as he is with the analysis of film and literature in the Spanish context. While researchers and students of cinema will be particularly interested in the book's detailed analyses of the formal aspects of the films, comics, and novels discussed, readers from backgrounds in history, political science and sociology will all be able to appreciate discussions of contemporary legislation, advocacy groups, cultural perceptions, models of social integration and more. The book is directed, also, toward those readers more familiar with the growing field of Disability Studies itself—making the argument that the specific case of Spanish culture and society speaks to shifts in the social attitudes and theoretical understandings of disability more broadly considered.
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Popular culture--Social aspects - Manners and customs - People with mental disabilities--Social conditions - Mentally ill women - People with mental disabilities in literature - People with mental disabilities--Spain--Social conditions - People with mental disabilities in motion pictures - Medicine in literature - Popular culture--Social aspects--SpainContent provider:
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The Making of the Humanities, Volume III : The Modern Humanities
Rens Bod;Thijs Weststeijn;Jaap Maat;Rens Bod;Thijs Weststeijn;Jaap Maat
This comprehensive history of the humanities focuses on the modern period (1850-2000)....
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The Making of the Humanities, Volume III : The Modern Humanities
2014; Vol. Volume III
This comprehensive history of the humanities focuses on the modern period (1850-2000). The contributors, including Floris Cohen, Lorraine Daston and Ingrid Rowland, survey the rise of the humanities in interaction with the natural and social sciences, offering new perspectives on the interaction between disciplines in Europe and Asia and new insights generated by digital humanities.
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Economy in Linguistic Landscape: A Study of Public Signboards.
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Language in India. Nov2018, Vol. 18 Issue 11, p157-166. 10p.
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Mohsin, Mehvish;Hameed, Shabana
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Language in India. Nov2018, Vol. 18 Issue 11, p157-166. 10p.
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Economy in Linguistic Landscape: A Study of Public Signboards.
Language in India. Nov2018, Vol. 18 Issue 11, p157-166. 10p.
Economy in language has a strong controlling function over the whole system, something which is carried out with the least possible cost in terms of energy. The concept of economy - a tenet or tendency shared by all living organisms may be referred to as 'the principle of least effort', which consists of the objective of the use of minimum amount of effort that is necessary to achieve the maximum results. This principle operates in linguistic behavior at the very core of linguistic evolution. The aim of this paper is to highlight the role of economy in linguistic landscape in the theoretical framework of Columbia School of Linguistics (CSL) also formally known as Form Content Linguistics. The theoretical basis of the theory of CSL is a chain of scholarly descent from Ferdinand de Saussure and Andre Martinet. It started from Prague School and reached to the Columbia School of Linguistics under the steward leadership of Prof. William Diver who reared and nurtured this theory at Columbia University through further research. The data for the present study was collected through photography method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Methods in Contemporary Linguistics
Andrea Ender;Adrian Leemann;Bernhard Wälchli;Andrea Ender;Adrian Leemann;Be...
The present volume is a broad overview of methods and methodologies in linguistics, il...
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Methods in Contemporary Linguistics
2012; Vol. 00247
The present volume is a broad overview of methods and methodologies in linguistics, illustrated with examples from concrete research. It collects insights gained from a broad range of linguistic sub-disciplines, ranging from core disciplines to topics in cross-linguistic and language-internal diversity or to contributions towards language, space and society. Given its critical and innovative nature, the volume is a valuable source for students and researchers of a broad range of linguistic interests.
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Young Chinese Children's Academic Skill Development: Identifying Child‐, Family‐, and School‐Level Factors.
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New Directions for Child & Adolescent Development. Jan2019, Vol. 2019 Issue 163, p9-37. 29p.
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Zhang, Xiao;Hu, Bi Ying;Ren, Lixin;Huo, Shuting;Wang, Meifang
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Can EEG Correlates Predict Treatment Efficacy in Children with Overlapping ASD and SLI Symptoms: A Case Report.
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Diagnostics (2075-4418). May2022, Vol. 12 Issue 5, pN.PAG-N.PAG. 22p.
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Maksimović, Slavica;Jeličić, Ljiljana;Marisavljević, Maša;Fatić, Saška;Gavr...
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Diagnostics (2075-4418). May2022, Vol. 12 Issue 5, pN.PAG-N.PAG. 22p.
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The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders
Raymond D. Kent;Raymond D. Kent
A major new reference work with entries covering the entire field of communication and...
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The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders
2004
A major new reference work with entries covering the entire field of communication and speech disorders.A massive reference work on the scale of MITECS (The MIT Encyclopedia of Cognitive Sciences), The MIT Encyclopedia of Communication Disorders will become the standard reference in this field for both research and clinical use. It offers almost 200 detailed entries, covering the entire range of communication and speech disorders in children and adults, from basic science to clinical diagnosis.MITECD is divided into four sections that reflect the standard categories within the field (also known as speech-language pathology and audiology): Voice, Speech, Language, and Hearing. Within each category, entries are organized into three subsections: Basic Science, Disorders, and Clinical Management. Basic Science includes relevant information on normal anatomy and physiology, physics, psychology and psychophysics, and linguistics; this provides a scientific foundation for entries in the other subsections. The entries that appear under Disorders offer information on the definition and characterization of specific disorders, and tools for their identification and assessment. The Clinical Management subsection describes appropriate interventions, including behavioral, pharmacological, surgical, and prosthetic. Because the approach to communication disorders can be quite different for children and adults, many topics include separate entries reflecting this. Although some disorders that are first diagnosed in childhood may persist in some form throughout adulthood, many disorders can have an onset in either childhood or adulthood, and the timing of onset can have many implications for both assessment and intervention. Topics covered in MITECD include cochlear implants for children and adults, pitch perception, tinnitus, alaryngeal voice and speech rehabilitation, neural mechanisms of vocalization, holistic voice therapy techniques, computer-based approaches to children's speech and language disorders, neurogenic mutism, regional dialect, agrammatism, global aphasia, and psychosocial problems associated with communicative disorders.
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Words for the hearts: a corpus study of metaphors in online depression communities.
Jiayi Shi;Zhaowei Khoo
Purpose/significance: Humans understand, think, and express themselves through metapho...
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Words for the hearts: a corpus study of metaphors in online depression communities.
Frontiers in Psychology; 2023, p01-19, 19p
Purpose/significance: Humans understand, think, and express themselves through metaphors. The current paper emphasizes the importance of identifying the metaphorical language used in online health communities (OHC) to understand how users frame and make sense of their experiences, which can boost the effectiveness of counseling and interventions for this population. Methods/process: We used a web crawler to obtain a corpus of an online depression community. We introduced a three-stage procedure for metaphor identification in a Chinese Corpus: (1) combine MIPVU to identify metaphorical expressions (ME) bottom-up and formulate preliminary working hypotheses; (2) collect more ME top-down in the corpus by performing semantic domain analysis on identified ME; and (3) analyze ME and categorize conceptual metaphors using a reference list. In this way, we have gained a greater understanding of how depression sufferers conceptualize their experience metaphorically in an underrepresented language in the literature (Chinese) of a new genre (online health community). Results/conclusion: Main conceptual metaphors for depression are classified into PERSONAL LIFE, INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIP, TIME, and CYBERCULTURE metaphors. Identifying depression metaphors in the Chinese corpus pinpoints the sociocultural environment people with depression are experiencing: lack of offline support, social stigmatization, and substitutability of offline support with online support. We confirm a number of depression metaphors found in other languages, providing a theoretical basis for researching, identifying, and treating depression in multilingual settings. Our study also identifies new metaphors with source-target connections based on embodied, sociocultural, and idiosyncratic levels. From these three levels, we analyze metaphor research's theoretical and practical implications , finding ways to emphasize its inherent cross-disciplinarity meaningfully. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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The Effect of Indian Contact and Glaswegian Contact on the Phonetic Backward Transfer of Glaswegian English (L2) on Hindi and Indian English (L1).
Shaktawat, Divyanshi
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The Effect of Indian Contact and Glaswegian Contact on the Phonetic Backward Transfer of Glaswegian English (L2) on Hindi and Indian English (L1).
Languages; Apr2024, Vol. 9 Issue 4, p118, 27p
This study examined phonetic backward transfer in 'Glaswasians', the ethnolinguistic minority of first-generation bilingual immigrant Indians in Glasgow (Scotland), who present a situation of contact between their native languages of Hindi and Indian English (L1s) and the dominant host language and dialect, Glaswegian English (L2). This was examined in relation to the Revised Speech Learning Model (SLM-r) and Speech Accommodation Framework. These predict that the migrants' L1 sound categories can either shift to become more Glaswegian-like ('assimilation' or 'convergence') or exaggeratedly Indian-like ('dissimilation' or 'divergence') or remain unchanged. The effect of Indian and Glaswegian Contact on transfer was also investigated. Two control groups (Indians and Glaswegians) and the experimental group (Glaswasians) were recorded reading English and Hindi sentences containing multiple phones which were examined for multiple phonetic features (/t/—VOT, /l/—F2-F1 difference, /b d g/—Relative Burst Intensity). In both languages, Glaswasian /t/ and /g/ became more Glaswegian-like (assimilation), whereas F2-F1 difference in /l/ became exaggeratedly Indian-like (dissimilation). Higher Indian Contact was associated with more native-like values in /t/ and /l/ in Hindi but had no influence on /g/. Higher Glaswegian Contact was related to increased assimilation of /g/ in English but had no effect on /l/ and /t/. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Markedness effects in the semiotactics of the hieratic marker of the Stone Tablets in the Christian sacrosphere.
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Tertium Linguistic Journal / Pólrocznik Jezykoznawczy Tertium; 2023, Vol. 8 Issue 2, p1-30, 30p
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Haładewicz-Grzelak, Małgorzata
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Markedness effects in the semiotactics of the hieratic marker of the Stone Tablets in the Christian sacrosphere.
Tertium Linguistic Journal / Pólrocznik Jezykoznawczy Tertium; 2023, Vol. 8 Issue 2, p1-30, 30p
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Oromotor skills in autism spectrum disorder: A scoping review.
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Autism Research: Official Journal of the International Society for Autism Research; May2023, Vol. 16 Issue 5, p879-917, 39p
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Maffei, Marc F.;Chenausky, Karen V.;Gill, Simone V.;Tager‐Flusberg, Helen;G...
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Oromotor skills in autism spectrum disorder: A scoping review.
Autism Research: Official Journal of the International Society for Autism Research; May2023, Vol. 16 Issue 5, p879-917, 39p
Oromotor functioning plays a foundational role in spoken communication and feeding, two areas of significant difficulty for many autistic individuals. However, despite years of research and established differences in gross and fine motor skills in this population, there is currently no clear consensus regarding the presence or nature of oral motor control deficits in autistic individuals. In this scoping review, we summarize research published between 1994 and 2022 to answer the following research questions: (1) What methods have been used to investigate oromotor functioning in autistic individuals? (2) Which oromotor behaviors have been investigated in this population? and (3) What conclusions can be drawn regarding oromotor skills in this population? Seven online databases were searched resulting in 107 studies meeting our inclusion criteria. Included studies varied widely in sample characteristics, behaviors analyzed, and research methodology. The large majority (81%) of included studies report a significant oromotor abnormality related to speech production, nonspeech oromotor skills, or feeding within a sample of autistic individuals based on age norms or in comparison to a control group. We examine these findings to identify trends, address methodological aspects hindering cross‐study synthesis and generalization, and provide suggestions for future research. Lay Summary: Autistic individuals demonstrate movement abnormalities during tasks including walking, balancing, reaching, and tool use. However, little is known about movements of the mouth despite well‐known difficulties with speech and feeding in ASD. Here we (1) summarize studies related to mouth movements in ASD, showing that 81% of these studies indicate significant abnormalities in autistic individuals, (2) discuss common findings in these studies, and (3) make suggestions for future research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
