title: Predictors of Parent Responsiveness to 1-Year-Olds At-Risk for Autism Spectrum Disorder.
abstract: Parent responsiveness is critical for child development of cognition, social-communication, and self-regulation. Parents tend to respond more frequently when children at-risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) demonstrate stronger social-communication; however, it is unclear how responsiveness is associated with sensory characteristics of children at-risk for ASD. To address this issue, we examined the extent to which child social-communication and sensory reactivity patterns (i.e., hyper- and hypo-reactivity) predicted parent responsiveness to 1-year-olds at-risk for ASD in a community sample of 97 parent-infant pairs. A combination of child social-communication and sensory hypo-reactivity consistently predicted how parents played and talked with their 1-year-old at-risk for ASD. Parents tended to talk less and use more play actions when infants communicated less and demonstrated stronger hypo-reactivity.
authors: Carolina Institute for Developmental Disabilities, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Campus Box #7255, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. jessica.kinard@cidd.unc.edu.|Program for Early Autism Research, Leadership, and Service, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA. jessica.kinard@cidd.unc.edu.
authors: Jessica L
authors: 0000-0002-4286-5454
authors: JL
authors: Kinard
authors: Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
authors: John
authors: J
authors: Sideris
authors: Program for Early Autism Research, Leadership, and Service, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.|Department of Allied Health Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
authors: Linda R
authors: LR
authors: Watson
authors: Program for Early Autism Research, Leadership, and Service, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.|Department of Allied Health Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
authors: Grace T
authors: GT
authors: Baranek
authors: Program for Early Autism Research, Leadership, and Service, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.|Department of Allied Health Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
authors: Elizabeth R
authors: ER
authors: Crais
authors: Program for Early Autism Research, Leadership, and Service, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.|Department of Allied Health Sciences, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
authors: Linn
authors: L
authors: Wakeford
authors: Program for Early Autism Research, Leadership, and Service, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.|Department of Psychiatry and UNC TEACCH Autism Program, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA.
authors: Lauren
authors: L
authors: Turner-Brown
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000067877:Autism Spectrum Disorder / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009633:Nonverbal Communication; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D014705:Verbal Behavior
keywords: Infants at-risk for autism spectrum disorder (ASD); Parent responsiveness; Sensory reactivity patterns; Social-communication