Multiple response to sound in dysfunctional children.
Methods and findings derived from over a decade of linguistic-kinesic microanalysis of sound films of human behavior were appled to the analysis of sound films of 25 dysfunctional children. Of the children, 17 were markedly dysfunctional (autistic-like) while 8 had milder reading problems. All of these children appeared to respond to sound more than once: when it actually occurred and again after a delay ranging from a fraction of a second up to a full second, depending on the child. Most of the children did not seem to actually hear the sound more than once; however, there is some indication that a few children may have done so. Evidence was also found suggesting a continuum from the longer delay of autistic-like children to the briefer delay of children with reading problems.
D001307:Auditory Perception; D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004410:Dyslexia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004495:Education of Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007697:Kinesics; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000150:complications; D008037:Linguistics; D008297:Male; D009040:Motion Pictures; D009068:Movement; D010469:Perceptual Distortion; D011930:Reaction Time; D013060:Speech; D013997:Time Factors; D014796:Visual Perception; D014831:Voice