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Bahrick, Lorraine E.; Todd, James Torrence; Soska, Kasey C. – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Multisensory attention skills provide a crucial foundation for early cognitive, social, and language development, yet there are no fine-grained, individual difference measures of these skills appropriate for preverbal children. The Multisensory Attention Assessment Protocol (MAAP) fills this need. In a single video-based protocol requiring no…
Descriptors: Attention, Individual Differences, Measures (Individuals), Age Differences
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Siller, Michael; Reyes, Nuri; Hotez, Emily; Hutman, Ted; Sigman, Marian – Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
The aim of this study was to identify child characteristics, family demographics, and parent cognitions that may affect access to early intervention, special education, and related services. The sample included 70 families of young children with autism spectrum disorders. All parents were enrolled in a short education program, providing them with…
Descriptors: Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Young Children, Individual Characteristics
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Elison, Jed T.; Wolff, Jason J.; Heimer, Debra C.; Paterson, Sarah J.; Gu, Hongbin; Hazlett, Heather C.; Styner, Martin; Gerig, Guido; Piven, Joseph – Developmental Science, 2013
Elucidating the neural basis of joint attention in infancy promises to yield important insights into the development of language and social cognition, and directly informs developmental models of autism. We describe a new method for evaluating responding to joint attention performance in infancy that highlights the 9- to 10-month period as a time…
Descriptors: Infants, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Prediction, Individual Differences