Measurement of Joint Attention Fluency

The Vista School

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Autism; Autism Spectrum Disorders

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01643343

33060

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this research is to study joint attention. Joint attention plays a critical role in social and language development in children with and without autism. Joint attention is the shared attention between a child and another person. This study seeks to set a standard benchmark of frequency scores for joint attention. Finding a rate of engaging in joint attention behavior would offer a benchmark for all researchers and practitioners working with learners with and without autism.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 8 months to 6 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• autism spectrum disorder

Exclusion criteria

• hearing or vision problems
• behaviors that are a danger to self or others

Trial design

100 participants in 2 patient groups

Typically Developing

Description:

Typically developing toddler volunteers between the ages of 8 months and 3 years

Autism

Description:

Children between the ages of 8 months and 6 years with a diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder