Lab perceptual training and robot-assisted training in improving speech prosody of autistic children
Si Chen, Bruce Xiao Wang, James Chung-Wai Cheung, Fang Zhou, Yitian Hong, Bei Li, Angel Chan, Tempo Po Yi Tang, Bin Li, Zhuoming Chen, Chunyi Wen · 2026
Read Lab perceptual training and robot-assisted training in improving speech prosody of autistic children by Si Chen, Bruce Xiao Wang, James Chung-Wai Cheung, Fang Zhou, Yitian Hong, Bei Li, Angel Chan, Tempo Po Yi Tang, Bin Li, Zhuoming Chen, Chunyi Wen (2026) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-13350709.txt.
Description
Si Chen leads a team in a 2026 study of two training programs to lift speech prosody in autistic children. Prosody is the tune of speech: its pitch, stress, and pace. In autistic children it stands out at once, and it shapes how they fare at school and with peers.
One program trains hearing skills in a lab, with no social contact in play. The other uses a social robot that gives a controlled, staged form of contact. Dozens of autistic children took part, next to a smaller group of peers with typical growth. Gains in prosody were read for each path.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Si Chen, Bruce Xiao Wang, James Chung-Wai Cheung, Fang Zhou, Yitian Hong, Bei Li, Angel Chan, Tempo Po Yi Tang, Bin Li, Zhuoming Chen, Chunyi Wen |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 43 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |