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URI study examines audio-visual speech perception in parents of children with autism - EurekAlert


Direct relatives of people with autism sometimes display similar traits, in a much milder form that may not even be noticed outside a lab. While the Broad Autism Phenotype—mild, sub-clinical autistic characteristics or behaviors in first-degree relatives of people with autism—has been studied extensively in siblings, few studies exist on parents of children with autism. Researchers in the University of Rhode Island Department of Communicative Disorders are looking to fill that gap to gain a better understanding of the traits of autism.

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