The aim of the study is to identify objective diagnostic criteria for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) based on the analysis of speech and behavioral indicators. The paper presents the pilot data on the analysis of the speech features and behavioral patterns of 92 children aged 5–13 years with ADHD, ADHD with combined disorders, and control groups. We tested children on their ability to complete the test task “co-op play” of the CEDM method. Different types of data analysis were used - instrumental analysis of speech, expert analysis of children’s behavior, assessment of children’s psychoneurological state by their voice and speech by groups of listeners; automatic analysis of facial expression and ML-based automatic classification of diagnoses of children by their speech. Children with ADHD do not differ significantly from typically developing (TD) children in the analyzed speech features, had lower scores for Play and Behavior scales. Children with ADHD + autism spectrum disorders (ASD) have worse speech characteristics - high values of pitch, lower speech activity, lower scores for behavior and play compared to children in other groups. Our experiments with automatic classification showed that ML model is capable of capturing discriminative features in voice of atypically developing children. Binary classification showed good accuracy when comparing data from children with diagnoses and TD children, and lower accuracy when classifying ADHD + ASD and ASD. The paper discusses the results of the study, notes its limitations and its future research.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSpeech and Computer 27th International Conference, SPECOM 2025 Szeged, Hungary, October 13–15, 2025 Proceedings, Part I
Subtitle of host publicationSPECOM 2025
EditorsAlexey Karpov, Gábor Gosztolya
Place of PublicationSwitzerland
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages188-202
Number of pages15
Volume16187
ISBN (Electronic)978-3-032-07956-5
ISBN (Print)978-3-032-07955-8
DOIs
StatePublished - 13 Oct 2025
Event27th International Conference on Speech and Computer - Szeged, Hungary, Szeged, Hungary
Duration: 13 Oct 202514 Oct 2025
Conference number: 27
https://specom.inf.u-szeged.hu/

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science ( Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence)
PublisherSpringer Nature Switzerland
VolumeLNAI 16187
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference27th International Conference on Speech and Computer
Abbreviated titleSPECOM 2025
Country/TerritoryHungary
City Szeged
Period13/10/2514/10/25
Internet address

    Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Science(all)

    Research areas

  • Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Automatic Classification, Behavior, Expert Analysis, Speech

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