Published Article Review

Published Article Review

Background

The article chosen for this paper is 'Enhanced perceptual processing of speech in autism' by Anna Jarvinen-Pasley, Gregory L. Wallace, Franck Ramus, Francesca Happe, and Pamela Heaton. This article was published in the journal of Developmental Science. The article is published, though this paper will discuss its strengths and weaknesses. This would help in concluding if the article was worthy of being published or not. The article is related to the perceptual processing of speech in autism. This is not a new topic and many studies and researches have already been made on this area of study. The recommendation provided about the paper is that it should be revised. This is because many researchers and studies have already been made in this area of study which makes this article no different and unique to study especially (Järvinen-Pasley and et al, 2008).

Introduction

Autism is a very important in development psychology and science for study. Many studies and researches have been made in this area contributing to the field. This paper focuses on the article by Anna Jarvinen-Pasley. It focuses on the perceptual processing of speech in autism. Autism is a common topic now for the study and researchers have to make an extra effort to make contribution in this area by researching something new and different which can positively contribute in this field. This [particular article focuses on the experiments made on the children regarding their speaking fluency and children with controlled experiments were compared against individuals facing CA, VIQ and NVIQ (Järvinen-Pasley and et al, 2008).

Two experiments were made for this study. First, the experiment was conducted related to the audio and visual understanding and perception to the autism students. The second experiment was related to rhythm perception over meaningful speech and linguistically meaningless vocal stimuli. The experiment provides an insight to the difference between controlled children and children with autism. The experiments also focus on the visual, audio and speech perception and understanding. The experiments made for the study present provides valuable insights into the perceptual development. This is because children were told to hear and see rhythms, music and video and to tell what they have perceived through that. Yes, the author has provided good context for the study by citing relevant researches and theories. The relevant studies cited are related to the area and specific to the autism.

Two hypotheses were derived from the ...