Studies of Prosody...Autistic Spectrum Disorders

韵律研究...自闭症谱系障碍

• 批准号: 7167430
• 负责人: RHEA PAUL
• 金额: $ 10.39万
• 依托单位: SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-01-23 至 2008-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7167430
• 关键词: Adult; Affective; Area; Attention; Autistic Disorder; Award; Child; Child Care; Clinic; Clinical; Clinical Research; Collaborations; Communication impairment; Connecticut; Data; Development; Development Plans; Disease; Educational process of instructing; Emotional; Environment; Expressed Emotion; Faculty; Family; Feedback; Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Future; Goals; Individual; Intervention; Journals; Knowledge; Language; Measures; Mediating; Mental Retardation; Mentors; Methodology; Numbers; Paper; Perception; Performance; Phase; Process; Production; Protocols documentation; Purpose; Range; Research; Research Personnel; Research Subjects; Robotics; Scientist; Series; Signal Detection Analysis; Source; Speech; Stress; System; Testing; Time; Training; Universities; Wages; Work; base; caN protocol; career; improved; intervention program; multidisciplinary; neuroimaging; patient oriented; patient oriented research; relating to nervous system; research study; skills

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed project will provide 50% salary support for five years to release the applicant from teaching and other faculty responsibilities at Southern Connecticut State University and allow her to work on a series of patient-oriented research studies and to mentor beginning speech-language clinicians at the Yale Child Study Center. The candidate is a productive researcher (60 papers in refereed journals) who has, for the past 16 years, been teaching at state universities with heavy teaching loads. This award would provide her with the opportunity to engage in focused research and mentoring activities in a patient-oriented clinical research environment. The Yale Child Study Center has been active in both research and clinical care of children with autism for more than 20 years. The Center provides both a source of subjects for research and a multidisciplinary clinic that serves large numbers of these children and their families, as well as the opportunities for collaborations with scientists from a broad range of backgrounds. The candidate's long-term goals in this project are: 1) to increase her knowledge and skills in three areas in which specific collaborators have been proposed--instrumental speech analysis and signal detection, neuroimaging, and robotics; and 2) to devote more time and attention to patient-oriented research and clinical mentoring. The research career development plan proposed here will result in maximizing the candidate's opportunity to contribute to knowledge and practice in the field of communication disorders in autism. The research plan for this project involves three studies: 1) the study of the production of prosody in grammatical and pragmatic/affective contexts in high functioning individuals with autistic spectrum disorders (ASDs) and appropriate contrast groups, using instrumental analysis and signal detection methodologies, both to better detail prosodic abilities and to work toward the development of a prosodic intervention protocol; 2) the study of the perception of prosody in grammatical and pragmatic/affective contexts in high functioning individuals with ASDs and appropriate contrast groups, both to better detail their abilities and to work toward the development of a protocol that can be tested via functional magnetic resonance imaging for future studies of the neural organization of prosody and to investigate differences in processing strategies between typical subjects and those with ASDS; and 3) the development of a prosodic intervention program with a robotic generalization training phase, to be tested against a traditional intervention program.

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的项目将提供五年的50%的工资支持，以释放申请人从教学和其他教师的责任在南康涅狄格州州立大学，并允许她对一系列面向患者的研究工作，并指导开始语音语言临床医生在耶鲁大学儿童研究中心。候选人是一个多产的研究人员（60篇论文在参考期刊）谁，在过去的16年里，一直在州立大学教学与沉重的教学负担。该奖项将为她提供在以患者为导向的临床研究环境中从事重点研究和指导活动的机会。耶鲁儿童研究中心在自闭症儿童的研究和临床护理方面已经活跃了20多年。该中心提供了研究对象的来源和多学科诊所，为大量这些儿童及其家庭提供服务，以及与来自广泛背景的科学家合作的机会。候选人在这个项目中的长期目标是：1）增加她在三个领域的知识和技能，其中特定的合作者已经提出-仪器语音分析和信号检测，神经成像和机器人技术;和2）投入更多的时间和精力以患者为导向的研究和临床指导。这里提出的研究职业发展计划将导致最大限度地提高候选人的机会，以促进自闭症沟通障碍领域的知识和实践。本研究计划包括三个方面的研究：1）运用工具分析和信号检测的方法，对自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）高功能个体和相应对照组在语法和语用/情感语境中的韵律产生进行研究，以更好地描述韵律能力，并致力于韵律干预方案的发展;（2）对高功能自闭症患者和相应对照组在语法和语用/情感语境中的韵律感知进行研究，为了更好地详细说明他们的能力，并致力于开发一种可以通过功能性磁共振成像进行测试的协议，用于未来对韵律神经组织的研究，并调查处理策略的差异之间的典型主题和那些与ASDS;和3）的韵律干预计划与机器人的泛化训练阶段的发展，对传统的干预计划进行测试。