ERIC Number: EJ1250171
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2020-May
Pages: 14
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ISSN: EISSN-1467-7687
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What Leads to Coordinated Attention in Parent-Toddler Interactions? Children's Hearing Status Matters
Chen, Chi-hsin; Castellanos, Irina; Yu, Chen; Houston, Derek M.
Developmental Science, v23 n3 e12919 May 2020
Coordinated attention between children and their parents plays an important role in their social, language, and cognitive development. The current study used head-mounted eye-trackers to investigate the effects of children's prelingual hearing loss on how they achieve coordinated attention with their hearing parents during free-flowing object play. We found that toddlers with hearing loss (age: 24-37 months) had similar overall gaze patterns (e.g., gaze length and proportion of face looking) as their normal-hearing peers. In addition, children's hearing status did not affect how likely parents and children attended to the same object at the same time during play. However, when following parents' attention, children with hearing loss used both parents' gaze directions and hand actions as cues, whereas children with normal hearing mainly relied on parents' hand actions. The diversity of pathways leading to coordinated attention suggests the flexibility and robustness of developing systems in using multiple pathways to achieve the same functional end.
Descriptors: Attention, Parent Child Relationship, Child Development, Eye Movements, Hearing Impairments, Play, Probability, Cues, Nonverbal Communication, Toddlers
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Institutes of Health (DHHS); National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: R01HD074601; T32DC00012