ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2020
Scaling of Early Social Cognitive Skills in Typically Developing Infants and Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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- The use of eye-tracking technology as a tool to evaluate social cognition in people with an intellectual disability: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of neurodevelopmental disorders · 2023Pooled it
- Evidence of spontaneous mentalizing in children with Cornelia de Lange and fragile X syndromes, but not autistic children.Oxford open neuroscience · 2025Article
- The importance of low IQ to early diagnosis of autism.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2023Article
- The development of early social cognitive skills in neurogenetic syndromes associated with autism: Cornelia de Lange, fragile X and Rubinstein-Taybi syndromes.Orphanet journal of rare diseases · 2021Article
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Abstract
We delineate the sequence that typically developing infants pass tasks that assess different early social cognitive skills considered precursors to theory-of-mind abilities. We compared this normative sequence to performance on these tasks in a group of autistic (AUT) children. 86 infants were administered seven tasks assessing intention reading and shared intentionality (Study 1). Infants responses followed a consistent developmental sequence, forming a four-stage scale. These tasks were administered to 21 AUT children (Study 2), who passed tasks in the same sequence. However, performance on tasks that required following others' eye gaze and cooperating with others was delayed. Findings indicate that earlier-developing skills provide a foundation for later-developing skills, and difficulties in acquiring some early social cognitive skills in AUT children.
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