ArticleJournal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry2022
Variability in Responding to Joint Attention Cues in the First Year is Associated With Autism Outcome.
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- Early intervention increases reactive joint attention in autistic preschoolers with arousal regulation as mediator.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Trial
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- Exploring early-stage orienting behavior using an eye tracker for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder classification.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Sharing Our World: Impact of Group Motor Skill Learning on Joint Attention in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Early Language, Social Communication, and Autism Characteristics of Young Toddlers at Elevated Likelihood for Autism Identified by the First Years Inventory-Lite.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2025Article
- The Early Social Cognition Inventory - Autism Version: psychometric properties for young children with autism spectrum disorder.International journal of developmental disabilities · 2025Article
- The Construct Validity of the Childhood Joint Attention Rating Scale (C-JARS) in School-Aged Autistic Children.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- Quantifying latent social motivation and its associations with joint attention and language in infants at high and low likelihood for autism spectrum disorder.Developmental science · 2023Article
- Responding to joint attention as a developmental catalyst: Longitudinal associations with language and social responsiveness.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies · 2023Article
- A Data-Driven Approach in an Unbiased Sample Reveals Equivalent Sex Ratio of Autism Spectrum Disorder-Associated Impairment in Early Childhood.Biological psychiatry · 2022Article
- Examining the factor structure and discriminative utility of the Infant Behavior Questionnaire-Revised in infant siblings of autistic children.Child development · 2022Article
- Subcortical Brain Development in Autism and Fragile X Syndrome: Evidence for Dynamic, Age- and Disorder-Specific Trajectories in Infancy.The American journal of psychiatry · 2022Article
- Joint Attention and Its Relationship with Autism Risk Markers at 18 Months of Age.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Joint attention performance in preschool-aged boys with autism or fragile X syndrome.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Are early social communication skills a harbinger for language development in infants later diagnosed autistic?-A longitudinal study using a standardized social communication assessment.Frontiers in communication · 2022Article
- Infants' abilities to respond to cues for joint attention vary by family socioeconomic status.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant Studies · 2021Article
- The Bidirectional Social-Cognitive Mechanisms of the Social-Attention Symptoms of Autism.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Delineating Trajectories of Social-Emotional Competence in Infants and Toddlers.Infancy : the official journal of the International Society on Infant StudiesArticle
- Qualitative and Quantitative Measures of Joint Attention Development in the First Year of Life: A Scoping Review.Infant and child developmentArticle
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Abstract
objectiveWith 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.
methodWe 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 assessments at 24 or 36 months. Our sample consisted of LR infants, as well as HR infants who did (HR-ASD) and did not (HR-neg) develop ASD at 24 months.
resultsWe found that HR and LR infants developed abilities to respond to less redundant (more sophisticated) RJA cues at different rates, and that HR-ASD infants displayed delayed abilities, identifiable as early as 9 months, compared to both HR-neg and LR infants. Interestingly, results suggest that HR-neg infants may exhibit a propensity to respond to less redundant (more sophisticated) RJA cues relative to both HR-ASD and LR infants.
conclusionUsing an approach to characterize variable performance of RJA cue-reading abilities, findings from this study enhance our understanding of both typical and ASD-related proficiencies and deficits in RJA development.
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