To learn more about children’s early communication skills, take a look at these resources:
Washington State Early Learning and Development Guidelines
ZERO TO THREE | How to Support Your Child’s Communication Skills
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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