Sharing Attention During Early Childhood
© 2016
Contributors
- Amelia Bachleda, PhD
- Rechele Brooks, PhD
- Naja Ferjan Ramirez, PhD
- Jane Hu, PhD
- Lindsay Klarman, MNPL, NIC-A
- Jennifer Larson, PhD
- Sarah Roseberry Lytle, PhD
- Molly McElroy, PhD
- Lily Shafer
- Elizabeth Zack, PhD
- Patricia K. Kuhl, PhD
- Andrew N. Meltzoff, PhD
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- Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- a developmental disorder that impairs a child’s social and communication skills
- Directing attention
- using eye gaze or a gesture to direct another person’s attention to an object or event
- Following attention
- following another person’s eye gaze or gesture
- Gaze following
- looking at what another person is looking at
- Joint attention
- shared attention between social partners to an object or event