ERIC Number: EJ808773
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2008
Pages: 13
Abstractor: As Provided
Reference Count: 39
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ISSN: ISSN-1362-3613
Visual Disengagement in the Infant Siblings of Children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
Ibanez, Lisa V.; Messinger, Daniel S.; Newell, Lisa; Lambert, Brittany; Sheskin, Mark
Autism: The International Journal of Research and Practice, v12 n5 p473-485 2008
Children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) are impaired in visually disengaging attention in both social and non-social contexts. These impairments may, in subtler form, also affect the infant siblings of children with ASD (ASD-sibs). We investigated patterns of visual attention (gazing) in 6-month-old ASD-sibs (n = 17) and the siblings of typically developing children (COMP-sibs: n =17) during the Face-to-Face/Still-Face Protocol (FFSF), in which parents are sequentially responsive, non-responsive, and responsive to their infants. Throughout the protocol, ASD-sibs shifted their gaze to and from their parents' faces less frequently than did COMP-sibs. The mean durations of ASD-sibs' gazes away from their parents' faces were longer than those of COMP-sibs. ASD-sibs and COMP-sibs did not differ in the mean durations of gazes at their parents' faces. In sum, ASD-sibs showed no deficits in visual interest to their parents' faces, but greater interest than COMP-sibs in non-face stimuli. (Contains 2 figures and 1 table.)
Descriptors: Siblings, Autism, Attention, Infants, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Interpersonal Communication, Antisocial Behavior, Eye Movements, Nonverbal Communication, Asperger Syndrome
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