Gaze behavior and affect at 6 months: Predicting clinical outcomes and language development in typically developing infants and infants at risk for autism

Developmental Science

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 798-814

  Young, Gregory S ^a,b   Merin, Noah ^a   Rogers, Sally J ^a   Ozonoff, Sally ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTISM; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AFFECT; ATTENTION; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 67651175331     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00833.x     Document Type: Article

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