Bidirectional influences of caregiver utterances and supported joint engagement in children with and without autism spectrum disorder.

ABSTRACT: This study examined sequential associations between pairs of caregiver talk and caregiver-child joint engagement categories. Sequential associations quantify the extent to which one event (such as a particular type of caregiver talk) follows another event (such as a particular type of joint engagement) in a pre-specified time window, while controlling for the chance occurrence of the sequence. Although unable to support strong conclusions about causality, the requirement of sequential analysis that key events occur within a close temporal sequence rules out alternative explanation for associations that summary-level correlations cannot. We applied sequential analysis to observational data on 98 caregiver-child dyads, fifty of which included a child with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Grou

SUBMITTER: Bottema-Beutel K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5991996 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature