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Peer reviewedBaron-Cohen, Simon; And Others – Child Development, 1997
Two studies of toddlers and children with autism, mentally handicapped children, and normal toddlers examined whether autistic toddlers used Speaker's Direction of Gaze (SDG) strategy or less powerful Listener's Direction of Gaze (LDG) strategy to learn a word for a novel object. Results suggest autistic toddlers are insensitive to speaker's gaze…
Descriptors: Autism, Cognitive Processes, Context Clues, Language Processing
