Speech therapy can be used to help children with autism use normal tone and emotion and pacing when speaking (prosody).
This case study describes a boy with high-functioning autism who needed therapy to help with prosody. For example, the boy lengthened words when he spoke and he paused a great deal when speaking. The therapy approach involved a lot of back and forth between the therapist and child. While the therapy was able to help the child, the authors note that future research on this intervention would be hard since children vary so much with regards to prosody. They also note that prosody is best addressed once the child has acquired good language.
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