Targets and cues: Gaze-following in children with autism

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 951-962

  Leekam, Susan R ^a   Hunnisett, Emma ^a   Moore, Chris ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Attention; Autism; Gaze following; Joint attention; Nonverbal communication

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GAZE; HEAD MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFANTILE AUTISM; INTELLIGENCE; INTERVIEW; LANGUAGE; MENTAL CAPACITY; OBSERVATION; PARENT; PERFORMANCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CUES; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; ORIENTATION; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING;

EID: 0031708758     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021963098003035     Document Type: Article

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