Absence of preferential looking to the eyes of approaching adults predicts level of social disability in 2-year-old toddlers with autism spectrum disorder

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 946-954

  Jones, Warren ^a,b   Carr, Katelin ^b,c   Klin, Ami ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTISM; CAMERA; CAREGIVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EYE; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOUTH; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL DISABILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TODDLER; VIDEORECORDING;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FACE; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; REFERENCE VALUES; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT; SOCIALIZATION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 48949097764     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.65.8.946     Document Type: Article

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