NCT01643343

Measurement of Joint Attention Fluency

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 100 (estimated)
• Sponsor: The Vista School · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 8 Months – 6 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this research is to study joint attention. Joint attention plays a critical role in social and language development in children with and without autism. Joint attention is the shared attention between a child and another person. This study seeks to set a standard benchmark of frequency scores for joint attention. Finding a rate of engaging in joint attention behavior would offer a benchmark for all researchers and practitioners working with learners with and without autism.

Conditions

• Autism Spectrum Disorders
• Autism

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-10-01
• Primary completion: 2013-10-01
• Completion: 2014-10-01
• First posted: 2012-07-18
• Last updated: 2012-07-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States