A study, published in the Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders in February 18th, 2025, found that autistic children have more difficulties processing speech sounds than typically developed children whereas visual motion processing remained intact.
This study is being carried out by a team from the Hearing Institute, a center of the Pasteur Institute, and it has been featured as news on the Hearing Institute website.
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View the news on the Hearing Institute website
Wang, X., Bouton, S., Kojovic, N., Giraud, A.-L., & Schaer, M. (2025). Atypical audio-visual neural synchrony and speech processing in early autism. Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders, 17(1), 9. https://doi.org/10.1186/s11689-025-09593-w
