Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) impacts an individual's ability to socialize, communicate,
and interact with, and adapt to, the environment. Over the last two decades, research has …

Abstract Language profiles in autism are variable and atypical, with frequent speech onset
delays, but also, in some cases, unusually steep growth of structural language skills. Joint …

This study provides an expanded view of joint attention and its relation to expressive
language development. A total of 144 toddlers (40 typically developing, 58 with autism …

Eighty-seven preschoolers with autism spectrum disorders who were initially nonverbal
(under 6 words in language sample and under 21 parent-reported words said) were …

Using a structured literature search and meta‐regression procedures, this study sought to
determine whether associations between joint attention and language are moderated by …

From a preeminent researcher, this book looks at the key role of joint attention in both typical
and atypical development. Peter C. Mundy shows that no other symptom dimension is more …

Joint attention (JA) is an early manifestation of social cognition, commonly described as
interactions in which an infant looks or gestures to an adult female to share attention about …

Among preschool‐age children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and typically
developing children, parents' verbal responsiveness (PVR) has long been shown to predict …

Describing how caregivers' talk to their autistic children, and how their talk may influence
social and language outcomes, has important implications for developmental theory and …

The way that parents communicate with their typically developing infants is associated with
later infant language development. Here we aim to show that these associations are …