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Motor and Socio-Cognitive Mechanisms Explaining Peers' Synchronization of Joint Action across Development in Autistic and Non-Autistic Children
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Roni Poyas Naharan; Yael Estrugo; Shahar Bar Yehuda; Nirit Bauminger-Zviely – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2025
When partners coordinate their movement in time and space to reach a goal, they perform joint action, an important part of every interaction. Joint action involves motor abilities and socio-cognitive skills like theory of mind. Autistic children's lower joint motor coordination (joint action) abilities as well as their motor functioning and theory…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Psychomotor Skills, Interaction, Interpersonal Competence
Examining Concurrent Associations between Gesture Use, Developmental Domains, and Autistic Traits in Toddlers with Down Syndrome
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Chelsea La Valle; Gabriela Davila Mejia; Carol L. Wilkinson; Nicole Baumer – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2025
Purpose: Toddlers with Down syndrome (DS) showcase comparable or higher rates of gestures than chronological age-- and language-matched toddlers without DS. Little is known about how gesture use in toddlers with DS relates to multiple domains of development, including motor, pragmatics, language, and visual reception (VR) skills. Unexplored is…
Descriptors: Toddlers, Down Syndrome, Autism Spectrum Disorders, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
Associations between Joint Attention, Supported Joint Engagement and Language in TD Children and Children with ASD: Potential Sources of Individual and Group Differences in Language Outcomes
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Ahmed Abdelaziz; Manuela Wagner; Letitia R. Naigles – Language Learning and Development, 2025
Joint Attention (JA) and Supported Joint Engagement (Supported JE) have each been reported to predict later language development in typically developing (TD) children and children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). In this longitudinal study including 33 TD children (20 months at V1) and 30 children with ASD (33 months at V1), the contributions…
Descriptors: Autism Spectrum Disorders, Young Children, Attention, Participation