Brief Report: High and Low Level Initiations of Joint Attention, and Response to Joint Attention: Differential Relationships with Language and Imitation

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 262-268

  Pickard, Katherine E ^a   Ingersoll, Brooke R ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorder; ESCS; Imitation; Joint attention; Language

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; AUTISM; CHILD; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMITATION; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGY;

ATTENTION; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNICATION; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; INFANT; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; LANGUAGE; MALE;

EID: 84938852879     PISSN: 01623257     EISSN: 15733432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-014-2193-8     Document Type: Article

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