Soichiro Matsuda

Soichiro Matsuda

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Assistant Professor, University of Tsukuba | Behavioral Design Lab

Intervention for Increasing the Comprehension of Affective Prosody in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Published in Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2013

Summary

This study examined an intervention for increasing comprehension of affective prosody in children with autism spectrum disorders. The intervention arranged auditory emotional cues as instructional stimuli and evaluated changes in affective prosody comprehension.

The study contributes to the Training and Autism Support lines by evaluating a structured procedure for expanding emotion comprehension repertoires. It also connects computer-based instruction with behavior-analytic approaches to social communication support.

Research line

  • Training: intervention for affective prosody comprehension
  • Autism Support: support for emotion comprehension in children with autism spectrum disorders
  • Verbal Behavior: auditory emotional cues and cross-modal social stimulus relations

Matsuda, S., & Yamamoto, J. (2013). Intervention for increasing the comprehension of affective prosody in children with autism spectrum disorders. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 7(8), 938–946. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2013.04.001

Recommended citation: Matsuda, S., & Yamamoto, J. (2013). Intervention for increasing the comprehension of affective prosody in children with autism spectrum disorders. Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 7(8), 938–946. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2013.04.001
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