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      Joint attention, language, social relating, and stereotypical behaviours in children with autistic disorder.

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          This study aimed to investigate the relationships between abilities to initiate and respond to joint attention and symptoms of autism that have, and have not, been theoretically linked to joint attention. Participants were 51 boys and five girls with autistic disorder, aged between 2 years and 6 years 5 months. Measures of joint attention behaviours, language, social relating, and stereotypical behaviour were administered during a single assessment. As predicted, the correlations between joint attention and the two behaviours theoretically linked to joint attention (i.e. social relating and language) were significantly stronger than those between joint attention and the behaviour not theoretically linked (i.e. stereotypical behaviour). While causation cannot be inferred from this study, these results support the suggestion that difficulties with joint attention behaviours commonly found among children with autism are linked to language and social relating, beyond what might be expected simply due to their co-occurrence as symptoms.

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          Journal
          Autism
          Autism : the international journal of research and practice
          SAGE Publications
          1362-3613
          1362-3613
          Sep 2007
          : 11
          : 5
          Affiliations
          [1 ] School of Psychology, Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia. Erin.Delinicolas@flinders.edu.au
          Article
          11/5/425
          10.1177/1362361307079595
          17942456
          646a5256-6ba7-4e7a-8db9-c949b9b58b87
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