Early Social Attention Impairments in Autism: Social Orienting, Joint Attention, and Attention to Distress

Developmental Psychology

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 271-283

  Dawson, Geraldine ^a   Toth, Karen ^a   Abbott, Robert ^a   Osterling, Julie ^a   Munson, Jeff ^a   Estes, Annette ^a   Liaw, Jane ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTISM; AWARENESS; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERVENTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERCEPTION; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PERSONALITY TEST; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIALIZATION;

ATTENTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; AWARENESS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; EARLY INTERVENTION (EDUCATION); FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PERSONAL CONSTRUCT THEORY; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; SOCIALIZATION;

EID: 1442280723     PISSN: 00121649     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.40.2.271     Document Type: Article

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