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JOURNAL OF AUTISM AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS
Volume 50, Issue 9, Pages 3195-3206Publisher
SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.1007/s10803-020-04412-8
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Interactional synchrony; Social reciprocity; Nonverbal communication; Movement; Verbal communication
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- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders [R01 DC009439]
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Social partners tend to coordinate their behaviors in time. This interactional synchrony is associated with a host of positive social outcomes, making it ripe for study in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Twenty children with ASD and 17 typically developing (TD) children participated in conversations with familiar and unfamiliar adults. Conversations were rated for movement synchrony and verbal synchrony, and mothers completed measures regarding children's everyday social and communication skills. Children with ASD exhibited less interactional synchrony, with familiar and unfamiliar partners, than TD peers. Beyond group-level differences, interactional synchrony negatively correlated with autism symptom severity, and predicted dimensional scores on established social and communication measures. Results suggest that disrupted interactional synchrony may be associated with impaired social functioning in ASD.
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