Question

A common problem with ASD is where the subtleties of speech production are unusual: speech is disturbed in rate, rhythm, and intonation. The child or adult with ASD sounds unusual to the normal listener, even when the speech content is normal. These disruptions are referred to as ______.

Answer 1

Answer:

Dysprosody

Explanation:

Dysprosody is a rare speech disorder that is characterized by an impairment in one or more of the prosodic functions.

Prosodic functions refer to the different variations in melody, intonation, pauses, stresses, intensity, vocal quality and accents of speech and in children/adults with ASD, they generally have a problem with spoken language and they generally find prosody difficult to hear, understand or even to reproduce it