title: Increasing responding to others' joint attention directives using circumscribed interests.
abstract: Children with autism show significant deficits in joint attention (JA), which occurs when 2 people engage in verbalizations, gestures, or eye contact with each other and a common object. Children with autism also exhibit intense interests in specific topics (i.e., circumscribed interests; CI). This study investigated the effectiveness of teaching responding to JA directives (RJA) to 3 children with autism while engaged in CI activities. RJA increased during intervention and generalized from CI to preferred activities.
authors.affiliation: Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York.
authors.forename: Lauren A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Kryzak
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bauer
authors.forename: Emily A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Sturmey
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000209:etiology* / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000150:complications*; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003142:Communication; D005793:Generalization, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008297:Male
keywords: autism; circumscribed interests; joint attention