Differences in the Structure of Social Behaviour of Autistic Children and Non‐Autistic Retarded Controls

Buitelaar, Jan K.; Engeland, Hermán van; Kogel, Kathy H. de; Vries, Han de; Hooff, Jan A. R. A. M. van

doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.1991.tb01925.x

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“…This pattern of results is also consistent with previous work demonstrating that older children with ASD are often especially impaired in the coordination of communicative behaviors (Adrien et al, 1987; Buitelaar et al, 1991; Wetherby, Yonclas, & Bryan, 1989), and with more recent research with toddlers indicating that children later diagnosed with ASD demonstrate a lack of coordination of gaze, facial expressions, gesture, and vocalization relative to TD and developmentally delayed children (e.g., Shumway & Wetherby, 2009; Wetherby et al., 2004). …”

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The Development of Coordinated Communication in Infants at Heightened Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder

Parladé

Iverson

2015

J Autism Dev Disord

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This study evaluated the extent to which developmental change in coordination of social communication in early infancy differentiates children eventually diagnosed with ASD from those not likely to develop the disorder. A prospective longitudinal design was used to compare 9 infants at heightened risk for ASD (HR) later diagnosed with ASD, to 13 HR infants with language delay, 28 HR infants with no diagnosis, and 30 low risk infants. Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) analyses revealed that ASD infants exhibited significantly slower growth in coordinations overall and in gestures coordinated with vocalizations, even relative to HR infants with language delay. Disruption in the development of gesture-vocalization coordinations may result in negative cascading effects that negatively impact later social and linguistic development.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 90%

The Development of Coordinated Communication in Infants at Heightened Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder

Parladé

Iverson

2015

J Autism Dev Disord

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“…The most reliably measured deficits in early autism are those in social areas such as joint attention, communication and imitation. In fact, perhaps the most reliably measurable deficits in autism is a deficit in joint attention (Baron-Cohen, 1989, 1995Buitelaar, van Engeland, de Kogel, de Vries, & van Hoof, 1991;Mundy et al, 1986;Mundy & Sigman, 1989), and this deficit appears as early as 18 months (Baron-Cohen, Allen, & Gillberg, 1992) or even 12 months (Osterling & Dawson, 1994). Social dysfunction in autism may have its roots in social perceptual difficulties.…”

Section: Autismmentioning

confidence: 96%

The Perception of Animacy in Young Children with Autism

Rutherford

Pennington

Rogers

2006

J Autism Dev Disord

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Visual perception may be a developmental prerequisite to some types of social understanding. The ability to perceive social information given visual motion appears to develop early. However, children with autism have profound deficits in social cognitive function and may fail to see social motion in the same way that typically developing children do. We tested the hypothesis that children with autism fail to discriminate animate motion, using a novel paradigm involving simple geometric figures. The subjects were 23 children with autism (c.a. 70.7 mos.), 18 children with other developmental disabilities (c.a. 68.2 mos.), and 18 typically developing children (c.a. 46.4 mos.). Children saw two circles moving on a screen and were rewarded for identifying the one that moved as if animate. A control condition required children to identify the heavier of two objects. Children with autism initially showed a deficit in categorizing objects as animate (though no deficit on the control task), but showed no deficit in this ability after they had reached criterion in the training phase. These results are discussed in terms of the social orienting theory of autism, and the possibility that animacy perception might be preserved in autism, even if it is not used automatically.

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“…These deviances vary from abnormal low frequency of gaze behavior (Hutt and Ounsted 1966;Kasari et al 1993;Pedersen et al 1989), and different 'patterns' of gaze (Carpenter et al 2002) to abnormal timing rather than low amount of gaze (Buitelaar et al 1991;Van Engeland et al 1985;Willemsen-Swinkels et al 1998). The deviant timing of social gaze behavior may lead to asynchronies in the interaction between child and parent, and thus to impaired joint attention behaviors (Morales et al 2000).…”

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Joint Attention and Attachment in Toddlers with Autism

Naber

Swinkels

Buitelaar

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J Abnorm Child Psychol

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Joint attention is often referred to as a triadic relation between self, other and object. Young children with autism show deficiencies in the use of joint attention behaviors. Individual differences may be expected, and they may be determined by the children's cognitive development or the characteristics of the relationship of the child with the caregiver. Although most joint attention skills develop under the age of three, most studies of joint attention in children with autism involved children older than 3 years of age, due to difficulties in diagnosing autism under this age. In this study we investigated joint attention behaviors of 78 young children (mean age 25.7 months, SD 6.1) with autism spectrum disorders (n=20), other developmental delays (n=18), and typically developing children (n=40). Following the pertinent literature and confirmed by factor analysis, two types of joint attention behaviors were distinguished, Basic Joint Attention (BJA) and Associated Joint Attention (AJA). We found that cognitive delays and autistic symptoms-but not attachment insecurity or disorganization-were related to less joint attention. Already at the age of 2 years, children with more autistic symptoms show less joint attention, even after controlling for developmental level.

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Differences in the Structure of Social Behaviour of Autistic Children and Non‐Autistic Retarded Controls

Cited by 47 publications

References 31 publications

The Development of Coordinated Communication in Infants at Heightened Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder

The Development of Coordinated Communication in Infants at Heightened Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder

The Perception of Animacy in Young Children with Autism

Joint Attention and Attachment in Toddlers with Autism

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