Automatic Motherese Detection for Parent-Infant Interaction

During the first year of life, children with autism were distinguished from typical development children by poor social interaction (Zakian et al., 2000), absence of social smiling, lack of appropriate facial expression (Adrien et al., 1991), failure to orient to name. Autism manifestations are extremely variable, but infants inability to develop any sociability or to communicate with the entourage are in the core of this pathologic process.