ArticleMind, brain and education : the official journal of the International Mind, Brain, and Education Society2022
Mechanisms by which Early Eye Gaze to the Mouth During Multisensory Speech Influences Expressive Communication Development in Infant Siblings of Children with and without Autism.
Article in Mind, brain and education : the official journal of the International Mind, Brain, and Education Society, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06794476 (Milieu Teaching-AV), which is not on this map. Cited by 10 papers.
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Milieu Teaching-AV (MT-AV Pilot): A Pilot Study to Assess the Feasibility of an Adaptation of Milieu Teaching for Infant Siblings of Autistic Children That Encourages Looking to the Mouth
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10 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
- A Randomized Controlled Trial for Audiovisual Multisensory Perception in Autistic Youth.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2023Trial
- Relations Between Preferential Looking to Synchronous Audiovisual Speech and Expressive Language in Infants With Autistic and Non-Autistic Siblings.Mind, brain and education : the official journal of the International Mind, Brain, and Education Society · 2026Article
- A neuro-computational framework for modeling the development of cross-sensory interactions in Autism: from mechanistic understanding to targeted intervention.Research square · 2026Article
- Considerations for Measuring Caregiver Talk in Interactions With Infants at Elevated and Population-Level Likelihood for Autism: Deriving Stable Estimates.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2025Article
- Links Between Early Prelinguistic Communication and Later Expressive Language in Toddlers With Autistic and Non-Autistic Siblings.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2025Article
- Early selective attention to the articulating mouth as a potential female-specific marker of better language development in autism: a review.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Longitudinal Relations Between Early Sensory Responsiveness and Later Communication in Infants with Autistic and Non-autistic Siblings.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2024Article
- The Stability and Validity of Automated Indices of Vocal Development in Infants With Autistic and Non-Autistic Siblings.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2023Article
- The Processing of Audiovisual Speech Is Linked with Vocabulary in Autistic and Nonautistic Children: An ERP Study.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Associations Between Caregiver Stress and Language Outcomes in Infants With Autistic and Non-Autistic Siblings: An Exploratory Study.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2023Article
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12 authors at 7 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
Looking to the mouth of a talker early in life predicts expressive communication. We hypothesized that looking at a talker's mouth may signal that infants are ready for increased supported joint engagement and that it subsequently facilitates prelinguistic vocal development and translates to broader gains in expressive communication. We tested this hypothesis in 50 infants aged 6-18 months with heightened and general population-level likelihood of autism diagnosis (Sibs-autism and Sibs-NA; respectively). We measured infants' gaze to a speaker's face using an eye tracking task, supported joint engagement during parent-child free play sessions, vocal complexity during a communication sample, and broader expressive communication. Looking at the mouth was indirectly associated with expressive communication via increased higher-order supported joint engagement and vocal complexity. This indirect effect did not vary according to sibling status. This study provides preliminary insights into the mechanisms by which looking at the mouth may influence expressive communication development.
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