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Patten, Elena; Watson, Linda R. – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2011
Purpose: The ability to focus and sustain one's attention is critical for learning. Children with autism demonstrate unusual characteristics of attention from infancy. It is reasonable to assume that early anomalies in attention influence a child's developmental trajectories. Therapeutic interventions for autism often focus on core features of…
Descriptors: Autism, Young Children, Intervention, Attention
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Olswang, Lesley B.; Feuerstein, Julie L.; Pinder, Gay Lloyd; Dowden, Patricia – American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 2013
Purpose: This research investigated the use of a dynamic assessment (DA) to identify differences among young children with severe disabilities, which would predict progress in learning behaviors indicating coordinated joint attention (CJA). Method: Six children 10-24 months of age were enrolled in a 16-week treatment for behaviors indicating CJA,…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Young Children, Severe Disabilities, Eye Movements
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Guarinello, Ana Cristina; Berberian, Ana Paula; Santana, Ana Paula de Oliveira; Massi, Giselle de Athaide – American Annals of the Deaf, 2007
The study shows the differences between hearing parents and deaf instructors interacting with deaf children and directing their attention. Data were collected at home and at a service for special needs in Bristol, England. The mother or instructor was asked to play naturally with the child with the toys provided. When the child's attention was…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Deafness, Young Children, Attention
International Children's Centre, Paris (France). – 1979
The value of language and intellectual stimulation in young children is stressed in a report designed for health administrators and family planning organizations. First year developmental milestones are outlined, and a baby's need for attention as well as the need to provide information on speech and intellectual development to parents are…
Descriptors: Attention, Childhood Needs, Cognitive Development, Developmental Stages
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McWilliam, R. A.; Ware, William B. – Journal of Early Intervention, 1994
Forty-seven young children, 15 with disabilities, were observed 4 times for types and levels of engagement. Results indicated that engagement is difficult to measure through molecular data collection techniques because of error in dependability measures. The number of observed sessions could be increased to achieve generalizability, but increases…
Descriptors: Attention, Classroom Observation Techniques, Data Collection, Disabilities
Zamani, A. Rahman, Ed.; Calder, Judy, Ed.; Rose, Bobbie, Ed.; Leonard, Victoria, Ed.; Gendell, Mara, Ed. – California Childcare Health Program, 2006
"Child Care Health Connections" is a bimonthly newsletter published by the California Childcare Health Program (CCHP), a community-based program of the University of California, San Francisco School of Nursing, Department of Family Health Care Nursing. The goals of the newsletter are to promote and support a healthy and safe environment…
Descriptors: Child Care, Child Health, Child Safety, Attention