Journal
AUTISM
Volume 12, Issue 5, Pages 473-485Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/1362361308094504
Keywords
at risk; autism spectrum disorders; disengagement; early deficits; siblings
Categories
Funding
- NICHD NIH HHS [R01 HD047417, R01 HD047417-04] Funding Source: Medline
- PHS HHS [047417] Funding Source: Medline
Ask authors/readers for more resources
Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are impaired in visually disengaging attention in both social and non-social contexts. These impairments may, in subtler form, also affect the infant siblings of children with ASD (ASD-sibs). We investigated patterns of visual attention (gazing) in 6-month-old ASD-sibs (n = 17) and the siblings of typically developing children (COMP-sibs: n = 17) during the Face-to-Face/Still-Face Protocol (FFSF), in which parents are sequentially responsive, non-responsive, and responsive to their infants. Throughout the protocol, ASD-sibs shifted their gaze to and from their parents' faces less frequently than did COMP-sibs. The mean durations of ASD-sibs' gazes away from their parents' faces were longer than those of COMP-sibs. ASD-sibs and COMP-sibs did not differ in the mean durations of gazes at their parents' faces. In sum, ASD-sibs showed no deficits in visual interest to their parents' faces, but greater interest than COMP-sibs in non-face stimuli.
Authors
I am an author on this paper
Click your name to claim this paper and add it to your profile.
Reviews
Recommended
No Data Available