Associations between social anxiety, physiological reactivity, and speech disfluencies in autistic young adults and controls

CONCLUSIONS: SA or speaking-related physiological reactivity were not associated with disfluency frequencies or stuttering severity in autistic persons. Negative association between physiological reactivity and disfluency frequencies found in the control group may indicate that the physiological arousal may impact the speech production process by reducing the overt disfluencies.PMID:38593561 | DOI:10.1016/j.jcomdis.2024.106425

Source: Journal of Communication Disorders - April 9, 2024 Category: Speech-Language Pathology Authors: Veera Pirinen Kurt Eggers Katja Dindar Terhi Helminen Aija Kotila Sanna Kuusikko-Gauffin Leena M äkinen Hanna Ebeling Tuula Hurtig Mirjami M äntymaa Soile Loukusa Source Type: research