Differences in caregiver behaviors of infants at-risk for autism and typically developing infants from 9 to 15 months of age
| Autor: | Sudha M. Srinivasan, Anjana Bhat |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Parents Pediatrics medicine.medical_specialty Social communication skills Autism Spectrum Disorder behavioral disciplines and activities Article Social Skills 03 medical and health sciences Typically developing 0302 clinical medicine Child Development Object sharing Risk Factors Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Attention Older sibling Longitudinal Studies Prospective Studies Parent-Child Relations High risk infants business.industry Siblings 05 social sciences Infant Newborn Infant medicine.disease Caregivers Autism spectrum disorder Parent training Autism Female business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | Infant Behav Dev |
| ISSN: | 1934-8800 |
| Popis: | During an object sharing paradigm, we compared caregiver interactions with their infant between two groups: i) infants at high-risk (HR) for being diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and ii) low-risk (LR) infants, observed at 9, 12, and 15 months of age. 16 HR infants (14 infants with an older sibling diagnosed with ASD and 2 preterm infants that received a diagnosis of ASD at 2 years) and 16 LR infants (typically developing infants without older siblings diagnosed with ASD) were included in the study. At each visit, infants played with objects in the presence of their caregivers as crawlers or walkers. Previously, we found that HR infants are less likely to share their object play with caregivers at walker ages. The present study found that caregivers of HR infants used greater directive bids including being more proximal to infants and using greater verbal and non-verbal bids to sustain their infant’s attention and to ensure their compliance with the task compared to caregivers of LR infants. Our study emphasizes the bidirectional and dynamic nature of infant- caregiver interactions. Our findings have implications for caregiver training programs that teach parents appropriate strategies to promote early social communication skills in at-risk infants. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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