Atypical Regional Accent in Autistic Children: A Perception Study / Federica BECCARIA ; Gloria GAGLIARDI ; Mikhail KISSINE in Autism Research, 18-2 (February 2025)  

Public ISBD [article]  inAutism Research > 18-2 (February 2025) . - p.415-426 Titre : Atypical Regional Accent in Autistic Children: A Perception Study : Autism Research Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Federica BECCARIA, Auteur ; Gloria GAGLIARDI, Auteur ; Mikhail KISSINE, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.415-426 Langues : Anglais (eng) Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : ABSTRACT Autistic children are frequently said to speak with accents that markedly differ from those of their linguistic communities. To date, these anecdotal reports have never been tested or explained. We ran two perception studies using short audio recordings of autistic and typically developing children from the Campania region in Italy. The variety of Italian to which children are exposed in this region markedly differs from those spoken in the rest of Italy. Participant responses about the children's geographical origin show: (a) That autistic children's accent is devoid of the regional features of their community; (b) resembles the standard variety used in cartoons and child television programs. The judgments about children's accents are, furthermore, independent of the overall perception of speech atypicality. This paper shows that the accent of autistic children may diverge from that of their caregivers and peers because of the lasting influence of non-interactional, screen sources on their speech. En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.3300 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=547 [article] Atypical Regional Accent in Autistic Children: A Perception Study : Autism Research [texte imprimé] / Federica BECCARIA, Auteur ; Gloria GAGLIARDI, Auteur ; Mikhail KISSINE, Auteur . - p.415-426. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Autism Research > 18-2 (February 2025) . - p.415-426 Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : ABSTRACT Autistic children are frequently said to speak with accents that markedly differ from those of their linguistic communities. To date, these anecdotal reports have never been tested or explained. We ran two perception studies using short audio recordings of autistic and typically developing children from the Campania region in Italy. The variety of Italian to which children are exposed in this region markedly differs from those spoken in the rest of Italy. Participant responses about the children's geographical origin show: (a) That autistic children's accent is devoid of the regional features of their community; (b) resembles the standard variety used in cartoons and child television programs. The judgments about children's accents are, furthermore, independent of the overall perception of speech atypicality. This paper shows that the accent of autistic children may diverge from that of their caregivers and peers because of the lasting influence of non-interactional, screen sources on their speech. En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1002/aur.3300 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=547

Autistic adults display different verbal behavior only in mixed-neurotype interactions: Evidence from a referential communication task / Philippine GEELHAND in Autism, 29-5 (May 2025)  

Public ISBD [article]  inAutism > 29-5 (May 2025) . - p.1129-1142 Titre : Autistic adults display different verbal behavior only in mixed-neurotype interactions: Evidence from a referential communication task Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Philippine GEELHAND, Auteur ; Fanny PAPASTAMOU, Auteur ; Solène JASPARD, Auteur ; Mikhail KISSINE, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.1129-1142 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : neurotype (mis)match  oral versus written language  referential communication Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Recent accounts of social difficulties in autism suggest that autistic and non-autistic individuals mutually misunderstand each other. This assumption aligns with findings that mixed-neurotype interactions are less efficient than same-neurotype interactions. However, it remains unclear whether different outcomes between mixed- and same-neurotype interactions are due to contact with a different neurotype or to inherently different communication styles, specific to each neurotype. A total of 134 adult participants were divided into three same-sex dyad types: 23 autistic dyads, 23 non-autistic dyads, and 21 mixed-neurotype dyads. Participants were unaware of their partner?s neurotype. Dyads completed an online referential communication task where a "Director" guides a "Matcher" to rearrange abstract images, using both written (chat) and oral (microphone, no video) communication modes. Interaction outcome measures were task duration and verbosity of the Director. Across both communication modes, non-autistic dyads completed the task faster than autistic and mixed dyads, indicating that dyads with at least one autistic partner were generally slower. Notably, in mixed dyads, autistic Directors were more verbose than non-autistic Directors across both communication modes. These results, in conjunction with partners' unawareness of each other?s neurotype, suggest that even in the absence of non-verbal cues neurotype mismatch triggers autistic adults to display different verbal behavior.Lay abstract Recent research shows that in conversations, both participants influence the outcome. More specifically, conversations do not go as smoothly when autistic and non-autistic people talk together compared to when people of the same neurotype (either all autistic or all non-autistic) talk to each other. In studies finding a "same-neurotype communicative advantage", interaction partners knew about each other?s neurotype. Because of this methodological choice, it is unclear whether mixed-neurotype interactions go less smoothly because participants knew they were interacting with a different neurotype or because each neurotype really has a distinct communication style. In our study, 134 adults were grouped into same-sex pairs: 23 autistic, 23 non-autistic, and 21 mixed-neurotype pairs. The pairs did not know if the other person was autistic or not. They completed an online task where the "Director" instructs the "Matcher" to reorder abstract pictures. Pairs did this task in two ways: by typing in a live chat and by speaking into a microphone without video. The study looked at how long the task took and how much the Director talked/wrote. Results showed that non-autistic pairs were faster to complete the task than autistic pairs and mixed pairs, meaning pairs with at least one autistic person were slower in general to complete the task. Interestingly, in mixed pairs, only autistic Directors produced more words than non-autistic Directors, in both typing and speaking. These findings suggest that even without knowing about their partner?s neurotype and seeing/hearing their partner, autistic adults communicate differently when they interact with a non-autistic person. En ligne : https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13623613241298376 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=555 [article] Autistic adults display different verbal behavior only in mixed-neurotype interactions: Evidence from a referential communication task [texte imprimé] / Philippine GEELHAND, Auteur ; Fanny PAPASTAMOU, Auteur ; Solène JASPARD, Auteur ; Mikhail KISSINE, Auteur . - p.1129-1142. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Autism > 29-5 (May 2025) . - p.1129-1142 Mots-clés : neurotype (mis)match  oral versus written language  referential communication Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Recent accounts of social difficulties in autism suggest that autistic and non-autistic individuals mutually misunderstand each other. This assumption aligns with findings that mixed-neurotype interactions are less efficient than same-neurotype interactions. However, it remains unclear whether different outcomes between mixed- and same-neurotype interactions are due to contact with a different neurotype or to inherently different communication styles, specific to each neurotype. A total of 134 adult participants were divided into three same-sex dyad types: 23 autistic dyads, 23 non-autistic dyads, and 21 mixed-neurotype dyads. Participants were unaware of their partner?s neurotype. Dyads completed an online referential communication task where a "Director" guides a "Matcher" to rearrange abstract images, using both written (chat) and oral (microphone, no video) communication modes. Interaction outcome measures were task duration and verbosity of the Director. Across both communication modes, non-autistic dyads completed the task faster than autistic and mixed dyads, indicating that dyads with at least one autistic partner were generally slower. Notably, in mixed dyads, autistic Directors were more verbose than non-autistic Directors across both communication modes. These results, in conjunction with partners' unawareness of each other?s neurotype, suggest that even in the absence of non-verbal cues neurotype mismatch triggers autistic adults to display different verbal behavior.Lay abstract Recent research shows that in conversations, both participants influence the outcome. More specifically, conversations do not go as smoothly when autistic and non-autistic people talk together compared to when people of the same neurotype (either all autistic or all non-autistic) talk to each other. In studies finding a "same-neurotype communicative advantage", interaction partners knew about each other?s neurotype. Because of this methodological choice, it is unclear whether mixed-neurotype interactions go less smoothly because participants knew they were interacting with a different neurotype or because each neurotype really has a distinct communication style. In our study, 134 adults were grouped into same-sex pairs: 23 autistic, 23 non-autistic, and 21 mixed-neurotype pairs. The pairs did not know if the other person was autistic or not. They completed an online task where the "Director" instructs the "Matcher" to reorder abstract pictures. Pairs did this task in two ways: by typing in a live chat and by speaking into a microphone without video. The study looked at how long the task took and how much the Director talked/wrote. Results showed that non-autistic pairs were faster to complete the task than autistic pairs and mixed pairs, meaning pairs with at least one autistic person were slower in general to complete the task. Interestingly, in mixed pairs, only autistic Directors produced more words than non-autistic Directors, in both typing and speaking. These findings suggest that even without knowing about their partner?s neurotype and seeing/hearing their partner, autistic adults communicate differently when they interact with a non-autistic person. En ligne : https://dx.doi.org/10.1177/13623613241298376 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=555

Brief Report: Acoustic Evidence for Increased Articulatory Stability in the Speech of Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder / Mikhail KISSINE in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 49-6 (June 2019)  

Public ISBD [article]  inJournal of Autism and Developmental Disorders > 49-6 (June 2019) . - p.2572-2580 Titre : Brief Report: Acoustic Evidence for Increased Articulatory Stability in the Speech of Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Mikhail KISSINE, Auteur ; Philippine GEELHAND, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.2572-2580 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Acoustics  Autism  F0  Formants  Jitter  Prosody  Shimmer  Voice quality Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Subjective impressions of speech delivery in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as monotonic or over-precise are widespread but still lack robust acoustic evidence. This study provides a detailed acoustic characterization of the specificities of speech in individuals with ASD using an extensive sample of speech data, from the production of narratives and from spontaneous conversation. Syllable-level analyses (30,843 tokens in total) were performed on audio recordings from two sub-tasks of the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule from 20 adults with ASD and 20 pairwise matched neuro-typical adults, providing acoustic measures of fundamental frequency, jitter, shimmer and the first three formants. The results suggest that participants with ASD display a greater articulatory stability in vowel production than neuro-typical participants, both in phonation and articulatory gestures. En ligne : https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-03905-5 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=400 [article] Brief Report: Acoustic Evidence for Increased Articulatory Stability in the Speech of Adults with Autism Spectrum Disorder [texte imprimé] / Mikhail KISSINE, Auteur ; Philippine GEELHAND, Auteur . - p.2572-2580. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders > 49-6 (June 2019) . - p.2572-2580 Mots-clés : Acoustics  Autism  F0  Formants  Jitter  Prosody  Shimmer  Voice quality Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Subjective impressions of speech delivery in Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) as monotonic or over-precise are widespread but still lack robust acoustic evidence. This study provides a detailed acoustic characterization of the specificities of speech in individuals with ASD using an extensive sample of speech data, from the production of narratives and from spontaneous conversation. Syllable-level analyses (30,843 tokens in total) were performed on audio recordings from two sub-tasks of the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule from 20 adults with ASD and 20 pairwise matched neuro-typical adults, providing acoustic measures of fundamental frequency, jitter, shimmer and the first three formants. The results suggest that participants with ASD display a greater articulatory stability in vowel production than neuro-typical participants, both in phonation and articulatory gestures. En ligne : https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10803-019-03905-5 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=400

Brief report: Temporal distribution of visual attention between the eyes and mouth in young autistic children / Fanny STERCQ ; Mikhail KISSINE in Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 110 (February 2024)  

Public ISBD [article]  inResearch in Autism Spectrum Disorders > 110 (February 2024) . - p.102292 Titre : Brief report: Temporal distribution of visual attention between the eyes and mouth in young autistic children Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Fanny STERCQ, Auteur ; Mikhail KISSINE, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.102292 Mots-clés : Eye-tracking  Face scanning  Autism  Generalized additive mixed effects model Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Background Face scanning studies in autistic children report mixed results as to attention allocated to the eyes and mouth regions. While face scanning is a dynamic process, the way autistic children distribute their attention between the eyes and mouth of their interlocutor is usually analyzed by averaging the proportion of time spent looking either on the eyes or the mouth over the whole duration of stimulus presentation. Method In this study, instead, we focused on the temporal distribution of visual attention between the eyes and mouth of adult faces in 58 autistic and 61 typically developing (TD) children. Participants? eye movements were recorded as they were freely watching videos of faces of silent and speaking adults. We explored attention to the eyes and mouth with fine-grained analyses of the temporal trajectory of fixations on the two regions using generalized additive mixed effects models. Results These analyses revealed that both groups started their observation of speaking faces on the eyes and shifted to the mouth as the actor started speaking. However, TD, but not autistic children then slowly shifted their attention back to the eyes. Conclusions Rigorous analyses of how autistic children modulate their visual attention between key social features of the face over time may provide more accurate descriptions of their face scanning abilities. En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2023.102292 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=520 [article] Brief report: Temporal distribution of visual attention between the eyes and mouth in young autistic children [texte imprimé] / Fanny STERCQ, Auteur ; Mikhail KISSINE, Auteur . - p.102292. in Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders > 110 (February 2024) . - p.102292 Mots-clés : Eye-tracking  Face scanning  Autism  Generalized additive mixed effects model Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Background Face scanning studies in autistic children report mixed results as to attention allocated to the eyes and mouth regions. While face scanning is a dynamic process, the way autistic children distribute their attention between the eyes and mouth of their interlocutor is usually analyzed by averaging the proportion of time spent looking either on the eyes or the mouth over the whole duration of stimulus presentation. Method In this study, instead, we focused on the temporal distribution of visual attention between the eyes and mouth of adult faces in 58 autistic and 61 typically developing (TD) children. Participants? eye movements were recorded as they were freely watching videos of faces of silent and speaking adults. We explored attention to the eyes and mouth with fine-grained analyses of the temporal trajectory of fixations on the two regions using generalized additive mixed effects models. Results These analyses revealed that both groups started their observation of speaking faces on the eyes and shifted to the mouth as the actor started speaking. However, TD, but not autistic children then slowly shifted their attention back to the eyes. Conclusions Rigorous analyses of how autistic children modulate their visual attention between key social features of the face over time may provide more accurate descriptions of their face scanning abilities. En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rasd.2023.102292 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=520

Compliance with requests by children with autism: the impact of sentence type / Mikhail KISSINE in Autism, 16-5 (September 2012)  

Public ISBD [article]  inAutism > 16-5 (September 2012) . - p.523-531 Titre : Compliance with requests by children with autism: the impact of sentence type Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Mikhail KISSINE, Auteur ; Philippe DE BRABANTER, Auteur ; Jacqueline LEYBAERT, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.523-531 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : indirect speech acts  naturalistic study  non-literal speech  pragmatics Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : This study assesses the extent to which children with autism understand requests performed with grammatically non-imperative sentence types. Ten children with autism were videotaped in naturalistic conditions. Four grammatical sentence types were distinguished: imperative, declarative, interrogative and sub-sentential. For each category, the proportion of requests complied with significantly exceeded the proportion of requests not complied with, and no difference across categories was found. These results show that children with autism do not rely exclusively on the linguistic form to interpret an utterance as a request. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362361311406296 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=182 [article] Compliance with requests by children with autism: the impact of sentence type [texte imprimé] / Mikhail KISSINE, Auteur ; Philippe DE BRABANTER, Auteur ; Jacqueline LEYBAERT, Auteur . - p.523-531. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Autism > 16-5 (September 2012) . - p.523-531 Mots-clés : indirect speech acts  naturalistic study  non-literal speech  pragmatics Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : This study assesses the extent to which children with autism understand requests performed with grammatically non-imperative sentence types. Ten children with autism were videotaped in naturalistic conditions. Four grammatical sentence types were distinguished: imperative, declarative, interrogative and sub-sentential. For each category, the proportion of requests complied with significantly exceeded the proportion of requests not complied with, and no difference across categories was found. These results show that children with autism do not rely exclusively on the linguistic form to interpret an utterance as a request. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1362361311406296 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=182

Describing (pre)linguistic oral productions in 3- to 5-year-old autistic children: A cluster analysis / Pauline MAES in Autism, 27-4 (May 2023)  

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Enhanced pitch discrimination in autistic children with unexpected bilingualism / Marie BELENGER ; Inge-Marie EIGSTI ; Mikhail KISSINE in Autism Research, 17-9 (September 2024)  

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Investigating sex differences in narrative production of autistic pre-adolescents and adolescents / Charlotte DUMONT ; Philippine GEELHAND ; Mikhail KISSINE in Research in Autism, 124 (June 2025)  

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Judgments of spoken discourse and impression formation of neurotypical and autistic adults / Philippine GEELHAND in Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 82 (April 2021)  

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Neurotypical, but not autistic, adults might experience distress when looking at someone avoiding eye contact: A live face-to-face paradigm / Elise CLIN in Autism, 27-7 (October 2023)  

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No preference for direct versus averted gaze in autistic adults: a reinforced preferential looking paradigm / Elise CLIN in Molecular Autism, 11 (2020)  

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Phonetic Inflexibility in Autistic Adults / Mikhail KISSINE in Autism Research, 14-6 (June 2021)  

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Pragmatic reasoning in autism / Bart GEURTS

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Predictive Processing During Cue-Outcome Associative Learning in Autistic Children / Fanny PAPASTAMOU in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 55-10 (October 2025)  

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Selective Pragmatic Impairment in Autism Spectrum Disorder: Indirect Requests Versus Irony / Gaétane DELIENS in Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 48-9 (September 2018)  

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