Variability in Responding to Joint Attention Cues in the First Year is Associated With Autism Outcome.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

With development, infants become increasingly responsive to the many attention-sharing cues of adults; however, little work has examined how this ability emerges in typical development or in the context of early autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This study characterized variation in the type of cue needed to elicit a response to joint attention (RJA) using the Dimensional Joint Attention Assessment (DJAA) during naturalistic play.

Method

We measured the average redundancy of cue type required for infants to follow RJA bids from an experimenter, as well as their response consistency, in 268 infants at high (HR, n = 68) and low (LR, N = 200) familial risk for ASD. Infants were assessed between 8 and 18 months of age and followed up with developmental and clinical asses

SUBMITTER: Stallworthy IC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8636536 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature