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Increasing responding to others' joint attention directives using circumscribed interests
Author(s) -
Kryzak Lauren A.,
Bauer Sara,
Jones Emily A.,
Sturmey Peter
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of applied behavior analysis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.1
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1938-3703
pISSN - 0021-8855
DOI - 10.1002/jaba.73
Subject(s) - autism , joint attention , psychology , gesture , eye contact , intervention (counseling) , developmental psychology , object (grammar) , cognitive psychology , psychiatry , linguistics , philosophy
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.