ArticleJournal of autism and developmental disorders2024
Brief Report: Response to Joint Attention and Object Imitation as Predictors of Expressive and Receptive Language Growth Rate in Young Children on the Autism Spectrum.
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- Early intervention increases reactive joint attention in autistic preschoolers with arousal regulation as mediator.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Trial
- Increasing Joint Attention in Children With Autism Using Contingent Social Stimuli as Reinforcers.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Growth Trajectories of Joint Attention and Play as Predictors for Language in Young Children at Elevated Likelihood for Autism.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Adapting measures of motor imitation for use by caregivers in virtual contexts: Reliability, validity, and sensitivity to change.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Article
- Factors associated with receptive and expressive language in autistic children and siblings: A systematic review.Autism & developmental language impairmentsReview
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Abstract
Joint attention and imitation are thought to facilitate a developmental cascade of language and social communication skills. Delays in developing these skills may affect the quality of children's social interactions and subsequent language development. We examined how responding to joint attention and object imitation skills predicted rate of expressive and receptive communication growth rate in a heterogeneous sample of autistic children. Children's baseline skills in responding to joint attention uniquely predicted expressive, but not receptive, language growth rate over time, while object imitation did not significantly predict language growth rate over and above joint attention skills. Future research should examine the potential moderating roles of child age and developmental level in explaining associations between joint attention and object imitation and later language development.
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