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Washington, DC: American Psychological Association
Erscheinungsjahr
2004
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This study investigated social attention impairments in autism
(social orienting, joint attention, and attention to
another's distress) and their relations to language ability.
Three- to four-year-old children with autism spectrum
disorder (ASD;
n
= 72), 3-
to 4-year-old developmentally delayed children
(
n
= 34), and 12- to
46-month-old typically developing children
(
n
= 39), matched on mental age,
were compared on measures of social orienting, joint attention, and
attention to another's distress. Children with autism performed
significantly worse than the comparison groups in all of these domains.
Combined impairments in joint attention and social orienting were found to best
distinguish young children with ASD from those without ASD. Structural
equation modeling indicated that joint attention was the best predictor of
concurrent language ability. Social orienting and attention to distress
were indirectly related to language through their relations with joint
attention. These results help to clarify the nature of social attention
impairments in autism, offer clues to developmental mechanisms, and
suggest targets for early intervention.