| Literature DB >> 27987063 |
Rebecca M Jones1, Audrey Southerland2, Amarelle Hamo3, Caroline Carberry3, Chanel Bridges2, Sarah Nay2, Elizabeth Stubbs2, Emily Komarow3, Clay Washington2, James M Rehg2, Catherine Lord3, Agata Rozga2.
Abstract
Children with autism have atypical gaze behavior but it is unknown whether gaze differs during distinct types of reciprocal interactions. Typically developing children (N = 20) and children with autism (N = 20) (4-13 years) made similar amounts of eye contact with an examiner during a conversation. Surprisingly, there was minimal eye contact during interactive play in both groups. Gaze behavior was stable across 8 weeks in children with autism (N = 15). Lastly, gaze behavior during conversation but not play was associated with autism social affect severity scores (ADOS CSS SA) and the Social Responsiveness Scale (SRS-2). Together findings suggests that eye contact in typical and atypical development is influenced by subtle changes in context, which has implications for optimizing assessments of social communication skills.Entities:
Keywords: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD); Context; Eye contact; Gaze; Naturalistic interactions; Play
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Year: 2017 PMID： 27987063 DOI： 10.1007/s10803-016-2981-4
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Autism Dev Disord ISSN： 0162-3257