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Bean, Jessica L.; Eigsti, Inge-Marie – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2012
Joint attention (JA), the ability to share attention to an object or event with another person, is one of the earliest identified deficits in autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and directly influences language and social development. There are several effective assessments of JA for young children (e.g., Mundy et al., 2003), but none are appropriate…
Descriptors: Theory of Mind, Autism, Test Validity, Receptive Language
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Grossman, Ruth B.; Tager-Flusberg, Helen – Research in Autism Spectrum Disorders, 2012
We analyzed several studies of non-verbal communication (prosody and facial expressions) completed in our lab and conducted a secondary analysis to compare performance on receptive vs. expressive tasks by adolescents with ASD and their typically developing peers. Results show a significant between-group difference for the aggregate score of…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Nonverbal Communication, Autism, Adolescents