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Eye Tracking Young Children with Autism

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Published on: March 27, 2012

Brief report: eye direction detection improves with development in autism.

Simon Webster¹, Douglas D Potter

¹School of Psychology, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN, Scotland, UK.

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

|March 8, 2008

Summary

Children with autism show developmental delays in eye direction detection during late childhood, but this skill typically normalizes by adolescence. This study investigated the development of this crucial social communication skill in autism.

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Area of Science:

Developmental psychology
Neurodevelopmental disorders
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) research

Background:

Eye direction detection is a fundamental social-cognitive skill.
Previous research suggested intact eye direction detection in autism.
The developmental trajectory of this skill in autism remained unexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the developmental course of eye direction detection in children with autism.
To compare skill acquisition between children with autism and typically developing peers.
To understand the implications for social cognitive development models in autism.

Main Methods:

A demanding face-to-face eye direction detection task was administered.
Eleven children with autism and 11 typically developing children participated.
Performance was assessed across different age groups.

Main Results:

Younger children with autism exhibited a deficit in eye direction detection compared to controls.
Older children with autism performed comparably to older control participants.
Eye direction detection skills in autism show a developmental improvement from childhood to adolescence.

Conclusions:

Eye direction detection is impaired in late childhood in autism but typically develops by adolescence.
Findings challenge the notion of universally intact social-cognitive skills in autism.
This developmental pattern has significant implications for understanding autism's social communication deficits.