Speech Prosody Interventions for Persons With Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Systematic Review

• Published in: American journal of speech-language pathology Vol. 29; no. 4; pp. 2189 - 2205
• Main Authors: Holbrook, Sarai, Israelsen, Megan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Speech-Language-Hearing Association 01.11.2020
• Subjects: Adolescents; Autism; Autism Spectrum Disorders; Behavior; Behavior Rating Scales; Children & youth; Communication; Conversation; Decision-making; Evidence Based Practice; Literature Reviews; Mental Disorders; Nonverbal Communication; Peers; Perceptions; Prosody; Psychiatry; Ratings & rankings; Raw Scores; Socialization; Speech; Speech Improvement; Standard scores; Suprasegmentals; Systematic review; Teenagers

Purpose Persons with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may demonstrate abnormal prosodic patterns in conversational speech, which can negatively affect social interactions. The purpose of this systematic review was to identify interventions measuring the improvement of expressive speech prosody in pers...