Measuring child social communication across contexts: Similarities and differences across play and snack routines

Frost, Kyle M.; Koehn, Genna N.; Russell, Kaylin M.; Ingersoll, Brooke

doi:10.1002/aur.2077

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“…Our finding that social context matters is consistent with prior work showing that play versus snack elicited different symptoms during the BOSCC (Frost, Koehn, Russell, & Ingersoll, 2019), as well as our own work demonstrating that the presence of toys decreases the amount of eye contact in both typically developing children and those with ASD (R. M. .…”

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Increased eye contact during parent-child versus clinician-child interactions in young children with autism

El¹,

Clark-Whitney²,

Silver³

et al. 2019

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Accumulating evidence suggests that when parents are actively involved in therapy, children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have better outcomes, yet it is unknown whether children with ASD significantly alter their social behaviour with their parent versus a clinician. During a semi-naturalistic, face-to-face interaction, young children (N = 27, ages 18-60 months) with ASD demonstrated greater duration and frequency of eye contact with their parent compared to a clinician. Children also made more eye contact during snack versus interactive play with both their parent and the clinician, which is consistent with our prior work. The findings suggest that despite social communication difficulties associated with ASD, children with ASD demonstrated increased social gaze with their parent.

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confidence: 92%

Increased eye contact during parent-child versus clinician-child interactions in young children with autism

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Clark-Whitney²,

Silver³

et al. 2019

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“…Test-retest for the BOSCC-MV in FXS was strong and comparable to past BOSCC-MV trials in idiopathic ASD [14,16,17,28] and previous standards in idiopathic ASD measurement [11]. Reliability was similar between the BOSCC-MV SC and Core domains, while comparatively lower for the more variable BOSCC-MV RRB domain, also consistent with the results from the original psychometric papers [16,17,28].…”

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confidence: 83%

“…The Brief Observation of Social Communication Change (BOSCC), a new outcome measure for SC and RRBs [ 16 , 31 ], was developed with the specific goal of capturing longitudinal changes in an objective and standardized way for children with idiopathic ASD. The BOSCC has been applied to multiple videotaped interactions including play with caregivers or blind research personnel in both home and lab settings [ 16 , 29 ], ADOS administrations with a blind examiner [ 28 ], and snack interactions with caregivers [ 14 ]. The flexibility of setting and administration options is ideal for application across a variety of study types.…”

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“…The flexibility of setting and administration options is ideal for application across a variety of study types. The version for minimally verbal (MV) children, BOSCC-MV, has been validated in children with idiopathic ASD, demonstrating high to excellent inter-rater and test-retest reliability and convergent validity with other measures of language and communication skills in the idiopathic ASD population [ 14 , 16 , 17 , 28 , 29 ]. The BOSCC has shown sensitivity to detect changes in a relatively short period of time (e.g., as short as 12 weeks) and to be more sensitive than the Autism Diagnostic and Observation Schedule-2 (ADOS-2) in capturing SC changes over time [ 28 ].…”

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Social communication in fragile X syndrome: pilot examination of the Brief Observation of Social Communication Change (BOSCC)

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Thurman

Ronco

et al. 2022

J Neurodevelop Disord

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Background Social communication is a key area of difficulty in fragile X syndrome (FXS) and there are not yet adequate outcome measurement tools. Appropriate outcome measures for FXS have been identified as a key area of research interest in order to evaluate future therapeutic trials. The Brief Observation of Social Communication Change-Minimally Verbal (BOSCC-MV), an outcome measure with strong psychometrics developed for autism spectrum disorder, has promise as an outcome measure to assess social communication change with FXS participants. Methods We examined the BOSCC-MV via central coders in this multi-site-trial to assess its appropriateness for FXS. Eighteen minimally verbal males ages 3–12 years were enrolled and assessed on two consecutive days and 7 participants completed a third visit 6 months later. We examined test-retest reliability, inter-rater reliability, and both convergent and divergent validity with standard clinical measures including the Autism Diagnostic and Observation Schedule-2, Vineland 3, Social Responsiveness Scale, and the Aberrant Behavior Checklist. Results The BOSCC-MV in FXS demonstrated strong inter-rater and test-retest reliability, comparable to previous trials in idiopathic ASD. Strong convergent validity was found with Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule-2 and Vineland-3. Divergent validity was demonstrated between BOSCC-MV and unrelated measures. Conclusions The BOSCC-MV shows promise as a FXS social communication outcome measure, warranting further large-scale evaluation.

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“…Another important issue that needs to be considered, as discussed above, is how representative of 'real life' generalisation the measure used actually is. The recently developed Brief Observation of Social and Communication Change [Grzadzinski et al, 2016] that affords the flexibility to be used in naturalistic adult-child interactions across contexts may be useful here [Frost, Koehn, Russell, & Ingersoll, 2019].…”

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Beyond intervention into daily life: A systematic review of generalisation following social communication interventions for young children with autism

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Researchers have generally considered autistic individuals to have difficulties generalising learned skills across novel contexts. Successful generalisation is necessary for an intervention to have benefits in everyday life beyond the original learning environment. We conducted a systematic review of randomised controlled trials of early social communication interventions for children with autism in order to explore generalisation and its measurement. We identified nine RCTs that provided evidence of initial target learning and measured generalisation, of which eight demonstrated at least some successful generalisation across people, settings, and/or activities. The findings did not support the widely reported generalisation ‘difficulties’ associated with autism. However, generalisation was not consistent across all skills within studies, and one study found no generalisation despite evidence for initial target learning within the intervention context. In general, there are few methodologically sound social communication intervention studies exploring generalisation in autism and no consensus on how it should be measured. In particular, failure to demonstrate initial learning of target skills within the intervention setting and an absence of formal mediation analyses of the hypothesised mechanisms limit current research. We outline a framework within which measurement of generalisation can be considered for use in future trials. To maximise the effectiveness of interventions, the field needs to gain a better understanding of the nature of generalisation among autistic individuals and what additional strategies may further enhance learning. Autism Res 2020, 13: 506–522. © 2020 The Authors. Autism Research published by International Society for Autism Research published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Lay Summary It is generally considered that autistic individuals experience difficulties applying things they have learned in one context into different settings (e.g. from school to home). This is important to consider for intervention studies. Our review does not support a complete lack of generalisation but instead suggests that after early social communication intervention, autistic children can transfer some skills to new contexts. Overall, there is limited research in this area and further work is needed.

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Measuring child social communication across contexts: Similarities and differences across play and snack routines

Cited by 19 publications

References 24 publications

Increased eye contact during parent-child versus clinician-child interactions in young children with autism

Increased eye contact during parent-child versus clinician-child interactions in young children with autism

Social communication in fragile X syndrome: pilot examination of the Brief Observation of Social Communication Change (BOSCC)

Beyond intervention into daily life: A systematic review of generalisation following social communication interventions for young children with autism

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