Laura Vitale

Groups Matter: Investigating the Effects of Homophily in Child Interactions in an Inclusive Classroom

Yuan Tian, Laura Vitale, Debasish Sarker, Lynn K. Perry et autres

Children’s interactions with peers are central to their social, emotional, linguistic, and cognitive development. While research has focused on children’s pairwise associations, less attention has been given to the characteristics of larger groups of children. This study highlights the importance of a …

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Who Said what? An Automated Approach to Analyzing Speech in Preschool Classrooms

Anchen Sun, Juan J Londono, Batya Elbaum, Luis Estrada et autres

Young children spend substantial portions of their waking hours in noisy preschool classrooms. In these environments, children's vocal interactions with teachers are critical contributors to their language outcomes, but manually transcribing these interactions is prohibitive. Using audio from child- and teacher-worn recorders, …

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Who Said What? An Automated Approach to Analyzing Speech in Preschool Classrooms

Anchen Sun, Juan J Londono, Batya Elbaum, Luis Estrada et autres

Young children spend substantial portions of their waking hours in noisy preschool classrooms. In these environments, children's vocal interactions with teachers are critical contributors to their language outcomes, but manually transcribing these interactions is prohibitive. Using audio from child- and teacher-worn recorders, …

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Behavioral Classification and Characterization of Autism Spectrum Disorder in Naturalistic Settings using Classical Machine Learning

Vanessa Aguiar‐Pulido, Elliot Huang, Lemuel Mojica, Nicolas Echevarrieta-Catalan et autres

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a group of complex neurodevelopmental disorders that affects about 1% of the world’s population, impacting the quality of life of not only the diagnosed individuals but also their communities. Early detection and intervention are paramount to limit …

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Objective quantification of homophily in children with and without disabilities in naturalistic contexts

Chitra Banarjee, Yudong Tao, Regina M. Fasano, Chaoming Song et autres

Homophily, the tendency for individuals to preferentially interact with others similar to themselves is typically documented via self-report and, for children, adult report. Few studies have investigated homophily directly using objective measures of social movement. We quantified homophily in children with developmental …

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Reciprocal patterns of peer speech in preschoolers with and without hearing loss

Lynn K. Perry, Samantha G. Mitsven, Stephanie Custode, Laura Vitale et autres

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A granular perspective on inclusion: Objectively measured interactions of preschoolers with and without autism

Regina M. Fasano, Lynn K. Perry, Yi Zhang, Laura Vitale et autres

Children's preschool experiences have consequences for development. However, it is not clear how children's real-time interactions with peers affect their language development; nor is it clear whether these processes differ between children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and two other groups of …

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Fluctuations in pronoun use in everyday life: Understanding couple aggression in context.

Adela C. Timmons, Sohyun C. Han, Yehsong Kim, Corey Pettit et autres

Everyday language use, including the pronouns people choose when speaking to romantic partners, may reflect underlying aspects of relationship functioning and may have important implications for understanding couple conflict and dating aggression more generally. The current study measured couples' hour-to-hour "we," "I," …

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Social Approach in Autism: Modeling Objective Measurements of Child Movement in a Naturalistic Environment

Chitra Banarjee, Yudong Tao, Regina M. Fasano, Laura Vitale et autres

Abstract Background. Atypicalities in social approach are thought to be characteristic of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but few studies have quantified the social movement of children with ASD using objective measures. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a …

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[Last words of the dying; the psychology of the agonal state].

Laura Vitale