PSYC 412 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Joint Attention, Tantrum, Ms-Dos
21 Apr 2016
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Core features: qualitative impairment in social interactions. Joint attention: ability to coordinate attention between object and another person (e. g. sharing fascination of an object with others ) There is a hypothesis to why these children have problems with social interactions. Tom: understanding that other people have minds, knowledge, beliefs, feelings that are different from our own. Those with tom will say that sally will look where she left the marble (basket). By age 4, typically developing children are able to do this reliably. 100% of typically developing children can do this. 85% of children with down"s syndrome can do this. 20% of children with autism can do this: qualitative impairments in communication. Echolalia and other repetitions: of sounds, words, phrases. 50% do not develop useful language: repetitive patterns of behaviours and interests. Preoccupation with parts of objects: rather than playing with a toy as its whole, they may focus on (for example) the wheels of a toy truck.
