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Objectives: Joint attention is one of the most important prerequisite of language and social development. There are two types of joint attention, Initiating joint attention and Responding to joint attention. This study examined the development of responding to joint attention in typically developing children in 8-30 month. Methods: This study was cross-sectional. 61 children (40 female and 21 male) were examined in age 9,12,15,18,24 and 30 month. Tasks of joint attention scale of Early Social Communication Scales (ESCS) were used to assess children. Colmogrov-Smirinov and Kruskal-Wallis were used for data analysis and mean scores were computed for all groups.
Results: Data analysis showed that there was significant difference between mean ranks of groups.
Children scores had an increasing pattern across 9 to 30 month. Discussion: Results of this study indicated that responding to joint attention is developing from 9 to 30 month by considering the individual differences between children in every group.
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Original Article Development of Responding to Joint Attention in Typically Developing Children Across 9-30 Month Atieh Ghazvini; Majid Rafiee*; Fariba Yadegari; Abbas Pourshahbaz University of social welfare and rehabilitation sciences, Tehran, Iran Objectives: Joint attention is one of the most important prerequisite of language and social development.
This study examined the development of responding to joint attention in typically developing children in 8-30 month.
Tasks of joint attention scale of Early Social Communication Scales (ESCS) were used to assess children.
Discussion: Results of this study indicated that responding to joint attention is developing from 9 to 30 month by considering the individual differences between children in every group.
Key words: Joint attention, responding to joint attention, social communication behaviors Submitted: 2 September 2015 Accepted: 2 November 2016 Introduction Joint attention (JA) is an important milestone in infancy that is related to subsequent language, social-emotional and intellectual development (1-3).
Many studies reported important results about the relation between Responding to Joint Attention (RJA) and subsequent language development.
In this study, our goal was to examine the development of responding to joint attention skills across8 to30 month.
Individual differences in Joint attention continue in subsequent development of social and language skills in typically and atypically developing children (6).
Conclusion According to this study, we showed that responding to joint attention skills develop increasingly from 9 month to 30 month.
Responding to Joint Attention Across the 6- Through 24-Month Age Period and Early Language Acquisition.