Atypical object exploration in infants at-risk for autism during the first year of lifer

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Kaur, Maninderjit ^a   Srinivasan, Sudha M ^a   Bhat, Anjana N ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

autism; communication; development; infants; motor; object exploration; social

Indexed keywords

EID: 84969318468     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00798     Document Type: Article

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