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| Titre : |
Can autism professionals hear the autism diagnosis at a preverbal stage? A first impression study |
| Type de document : |
texte imprimé |
| Auteurs : |
Marielle WEYLAND, Auteur ; Pauline MAES, Auteur ; Mikhail KISSINE, Auteur |
| Article en page(s) : |
202844 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Mots-clés : |
First impressions Expert clinician judgements Autism Elevated likelihood of autism Preverbal production Canonical babbling |
| Résumé : |
Autism professionals frequently report being able to rapidly detect autism from hearing an autistic individual's vocal production, even before direct interaction. While vocal characteristics can influence diagnostic judgments, it remains unclear how accurate such spontaneous judgements may be and which characteristics of vocalization drive them. To date, there is no research on first impressions of vocalization of young autistic children. Sixty-one autism professionals categorized around two hundred short vocal samples from 9- and 18-month-old children as ‘autistic’ or ‘non-autistic’. The vocal samples were presented in a random order and were either vocalic or canonical babbling productions. Autism professionals showed an overall modest ability to accurately detect which vocalizations were produced by autistic vs non-autistic children. At both 9 and 18 months of age, classification accuracy exceeded chance level for vocalic productions and for canonical babbling productions produced by non-autistic children, whereas accuracy for canonical babbling produced by autistic children did not exceeded chance level and showed a systematic bias toward non-autistic classification. Autism professionals’ first impression based on young children’s vocal productions thus appear only moderately reliable. In typical development, canonical babbling corresponds to a more mature speech acquisition stage than vocalic productions. Accordingly, participating in autism professionals’ classification are probably based more on the perceived maturity of vocalizations sample than on sensitivity to some feature characteristic of autism. |
| En ligne : |
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reia.2026.202844 |
| Permalink : |
https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=583 |
in Research in Autism > 132 (April 2026) . - 202844
[article] Can autism professionals hear the autism diagnosis at a preverbal stage? A first impression study [texte imprimé] / Marielle WEYLAND, Auteur ; Pauline MAES, Auteur ; Mikhail KISSINE, Auteur . - 202844. Langues : Anglais ( eng) in Research in Autism > 132 (April 2026) . - 202844
| Mots-clés : |
First impressions Expert clinician judgements Autism Elevated likelihood of autism Preverbal production Canonical babbling |
| Résumé : |
Autism professionals frequently report being able to rapidly detect autism from hearing an autistic individual's vocal production, even before direct interaction. While vocal characteristics can influence diagnostic judgments, it remains unclear how accurate such spontaneous judgements may be and which characteristics of vocalization drive them. To date, there is no research on first impressions of vocalization of young autistic children. Sixty-one autism professionals categorized around two hundred short vocal samples from 9- and 18-month-old children as ‘autistic’ or ‘non-autistic’. The vocal samples were presented in a random order and were either vocalic or canonical babbling productions. Autism professionals showed an overall modest ability to accurately detect which vocalizations were produced by autistic vs non-autistic children. At both 9 and 18 months of age, classification accuracy exceeded chance level for vocalic productions and for canonical babbling productions produced by non-autistic children, whereas accuracy for canonical babbling produced by autistic children did not exceeded chance level and showed a systematic bias toward non-autistic classification. Autism professionals’ first impression based on young children’s vocal productions thus appear only moderately reliable. In typical development, canonical babbling corresponds to a more mature speech acquisition stage than vocalic productions. Accordingly, participating in autism professionals’ classification are probably based more on the perceived maturity of vocalizations sample than on sensitivity to some feature characteristic of autism. |
| En ligne : |
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.reia.2026.202844 |
| Permalink : |
https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=583 |
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Can autism professionals hear the autism diagnosis at a preverbal stage? A first impression study in Research in Autism, 132 (April 2026)
