Bebko, James M.Schroeder, Jessica H.Weiss, Jonathan2015-03-272015-03-272014-02Bebko, J., Schroeder, J., & Weiss, J. A. (2014). The McGurk effect in children with Autism and Asperger Syndrome. Autism Research, 7(1), 50-59.1939-3806http://hdl.handle.net/10315/28541DOI: 10.1002/aur.1343Children with autism may have difficulties putting together what they see and hear during speech, which has been linked to understanding of speech and language development. However, little has been done to examine children with Asperger Syndrome as a group on tasks assessing integration of what is seen and heard during speech, despite this group’s often greater language skills. Samples of children with Autism, Asperger Syndrome, and Down Syndrome, as well as a typically developing sample, were presented with an auditory-only condition, a speech-reading condition, and an audiovisual condition that involved mismatching auditory and visual signals. Children with Autism demonstrated auditory-only and speech-reading performance at the same level as the other groups, yet showed a lower performance on the audiovisual condition compared to the Asperger, Down and typical samples. These results suggest that children with Autism may have unique difficulties integrating what is seen and heard during speech perception that may be linked to how they mentally representation speech sounds.en-USThis is the pre-peer reviewed version of the following article: Bebko, J., Schroeder, J., & Weiss, J. A. (2014). The McGurk effect in children with Autism and Asperger Syndrome. Autism Research, 7(1), 50-59, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aur.1343/full. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for self-archiving.AutismIntermodal PerceptionAsperger SyndromeIntellectual DisabilitySpeechArticlehttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291939-3806http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aur.1343/full