This study examined the development of joint attention in 95 infants assessed between 9 and 18 months age. Infants displayed significant test–retest reliability on measures following gaze gestures (responding to attention, RJA) their use eye contact establish social coordination (initiating IJA). a linear, increasing pattern age‐related growth most measures. However, IJA was characterized by cubic developmental pattern. with different rates cognitive exhibited frequencies acts at each age,...

Infant joint attention has been observed to be related social‐emotional outcomes in at‐risk children. To address whether this relation is also evident typically developing children, 52 children were tested at 12, 15, 24, and 30 months examine associations between infant social outcomes. Twelve‐month initiating responding 30‐month competence externalizing behavior, even when accounting for 15‐month temperament ratings, 24‐month cognition language, demographic variables. These results suggest...

Current research suggests that the extent to which child‐caregiver dyads engage in interactions involving episodes of joint or coordinated attention can have a significant impact on early lexical acquisition. In this regard it has been recognized individual differences developing child communication skills, such as capacity follow gaze and infant language, may contribute these interactional patterns, well subsequent language development. To address expectation, 21 infant‐parent were...

The ability to coordinate expressive behaviors is crucial the development of social and emotional communication. Coordination involves systematic sequencing from two different modalities that have some temporal overlap. A bootstrapping procedure was used determine whether preverbal 3- 6-month-old infants sequence vocalizations, gazes at their mothers' faces, facial expressions into pairs coordinated patterns nonrandomly. Smiles frowns were highly with vocalizations. also which became...

This study examined the concurrent and predictive relations between infant attention skills, joint attention, emotion regulation. Infants' gaze following skills duration of orienting were assessed at 6 months age, collaborative regulation 24 age. The results indicated that infants' ability to follow direction was significantly correlated with strategy use this are consistent previous research finding associations children's behaviour. These data also suggest preexisting visual may contribute...

Little is known about variables that may contribute to individual differences in infant joint attention, or the coordination of visual attention with a social partner. Therefore, this study examined contributions caregiver behavior and temperament development between 9 12 months. Data were collected from 57 infants using caregiver–infant paradigm, an infant–tester parent report temperament. Nine‐month measures scaffolding initiating (IJA) testers significantly related 12‐month IJA testers. A...

This study examined the concurrent and predictive relations between infant attention skills, joint attention, emotion regulation. Infants' gaze following skills duration of orienting were assessed at 6 months age, collaborative regulation 24 age. The results indicated that infants' ability to follow direction was significantly correlated with strategy use this are consistent previous research finding associations children's behaviour. These data also suggest preexisting visual may contribute...

Neurodevelopmental disorders are on the rise worldwide, with diagnoses that detect derailment from typical milestones by 3 to 4.5 years of age. By then, circuitry in brain has already reached some level maturation inevitably takes neurodevelopment through a different course. There is critical need then develop analytical methods problems much earlier and identify targets for treatment. We integrate data multiple sources, including neonatal auditory brainstem responses (ABR), clinical...

Context: Lead is a preventable environmental toxin that has been previously associated with deficits in cognition, academic performance, attention, and behavior children. Very few studies, however, have examined the relationship between exposure to lead documented developmental disabilities. Objective: This study relative risk of on disabilities preschool-aged Design: A statewide surveillance data set containing blood level (BLL) was integrated another disability classifications for special...

Previous studies report prolonged auditory brainstem response (ABR) in children and adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Despite its promise as a biomarker, it is unclear whether healthy newborns who later develop ASD also show ABR abnormalities. In the current study, we extracted data on 139,154 from their Universal Newborn Hearing Screening, including 321 were diagnosed ASD. We found that had significant prolongations of phase V‐negative latency compared non‐ASD newborns. Newborns...

This study examined the importance of target location (within vs. outside visual field) on relation between responding to joint attention and subsequent language development in 47 normally developing infants. The results supported a developmental progression infants' ability locate targets from within field. In addition, individual differences 15-month-old correctly field was unique predictor expressive at 24 months. Infants' may demonstrate increasing capacities for regulation,...

This study demonstrates the utility of integrating birth certificate record data with an existing disability-tracking database for purpose evaluating early identification efforts. The authors examined referral rates preschool-age children several known disability risk factors. Low birthweight, low maternal education, and prematurity were associated increased odds referral. also gender, race, ethnicity. boys nearly twice those girls. Compared to White children, greater Native American lower...

Statewide birth certificate and preschool exceptionality records were integrated to identify risk factors for developmental delay (DD). Epidemiological methods used investigate both individual-level population-level DD associated with a number of child maternal factors. Infants born very low weight at the greatest DD, whereas prematurity (gestational age less than 37 weeks) education posed risk. For comparative purposes, speech disability other disabilities was also determined. The nearly...

Developmental epidemiological methods were used to identify risk factors for speech impairment (SI), specific language (SLI), and combined (CSLI) in a statewide sample of preschool-age children. Level was determined by comparing the rate occurrence between 12,799 children with SI, SLI, or CSLI comparison group 946,177 Multiple birth, presence newborn condition, congenital abnormality, maternal age greater than 35 years, medical history factor associated increased CSLI. Prematurity very low...

Educational outcomes were evaluated for 2,046 preschool children identified with developmental delay. Results indicated that at third grade, 26% in regular education and the remaining 74% receiving special services. The most common disability classifications outcome specific learning disabilities educable mentally handicaps. Regular education, but not had higher retention rates than did general population. presence of one or more secondary exceptionalities was children. differ on other...

Preschool children were administered a screening battery consisting of nine different cognitive tasks. The participants tracked in the public school database. Based on children’s first-grade educational status, 2 groups formed: one who regular education and other composed gifted/talented program. preschool scores, summed over both identification-tasks subset generating-tasks subset, enabled identification high-performing outliers from sample performed very well compared to school-identified...