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A Pilot Study on Early Mother-Infant Communication during and after NICU Admission
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Hauser, Maria Paulina; van Dijk, Marijn – Early Child Development and Care, 2017
Premature children or infants with neonatal pathologies have a higher risk of developing communicative problems. This pilot study aimed to explore communicative behaviour between the mothers and the infants during the hospitalization in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and follow-up paediatric visit. The verbal interactions in the NICU were…
Descriptors: Premature Infants, Neonates, At Risk Persons, Communication Problems
Early Communication Development in Infants at High and Low Genetic Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorders: An Examination of Communication Spontaneity
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Alvarez, Shanna L. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Social communication impairment is one of the key diagnostic features of ASD, with communication deficits being the earliest symptom reported by most parents of children with ASD (Filipek et al., 1999; Landa & Garrett-Meyer, 2006). From differences in babble (Trevarthen & Daniel, 2005; Yirmiya, et al., 2006) and gesture inventories (Landa…
Descriptors: Infants, Genetics, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Autism in the Classroom: A Group of Students Changing in Population and Presentation
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Boyd, Brian A.; Shaw, Evelyn – Preventing School Failure, 2010
The number of children with autism served in early intervention or the public school system appears to be growing at an alarming rate. This article provides a basis for understanding this dramatic increase. In addition, the authors present a brief overview of the characteristics of autism, research on early behavioral indicators of infants and…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Autism, Special Needs Students, Symptoms (Individual Disorders)