Slowing Down Presentation of Facial Movements and Vocal Sounds Enhances Facial Expression Recognition and Induces Facial-Vocal Imitation in Children with Autism

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J Autism Dev Disorder, Volume 37, Issue 8, p.1469-1484 (2007)

Layperson Summary:

Slowing down facial expressions may be key to teaching children with autism to read emotions from faces.

Most children with autism are not good at knowing about facial expressions. The more severe the autism, the more problems the children have reading faces. This study was designed to see whether or not slowing down a video of face movements can help with children learn about facial emotions. The children with autism were better able to read facial expressions if the facial expressions were slowed down. Therefore the authors created software that slows down facial and sound cues.

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