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Eye Tracking Young Children with Autism
Published on: March 27, 2012
Mutual Gaze: An Active Ingredient for Social Development in Toddlers with ASD: A Randomized Control Trial
Pamela Rosenthal Rollins1, Adrienne De Froy2, Michelle Campbell3
1Callier Center for Communication Disorders, University of Texas at Dallas, 1966 Inwood Road, Dallas, TX, 75235, USA. rollins@utdallas.edu.
Abstract:
We examined the efficacy of an early autism intervention for use in early childhood intervention (ECI) and mutual gaze as a contributor to social development. Seventy-eight families were randomly assigned to one of three 12-week interventions: Pathways (with a mutual gaze component), communication, or services-as-usual (SAU). The Pathways/SAU comparison concerned the efficacy of Pathways for ECI, and the Pathways/communication comparison, mutual gaze. The Pathways group made significantly more change on social measures, communicative synchrony, and adaptive functioning compared with the SAU group and on social measures compared with the communication group. There were no group differences for communicative acts. The results support Pathways as a potential ECI program and mutual gaze as an active ingredient for social and communication development.
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