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Attentional skills during the first 6 months of age in autism spectrum disorder.
Full Abstract
OBJECTIVE:
To study the quality of early attention in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) through home movies.
METHOD:
Fifteen home movies from the first 6 months of life of children who later received a diagnosis of ASD were compared with home movies of 15 normal children. The diagnosis was performed after the third year of life of children by two senior child and adolescent psychiatrists using a checklist of symptoms according to the. The films of the two groups were mixed and rated by blind observers through a Grid for the Assessment of Attentional Skills in Infants, composed of 13 items grouped into three developmental areas.
RESULTS:
Using multivariate analysis of variance, the authors found significant differences between the two groups for the items in the social attention and the social behavior areas; on the contrary, there were no differences in nonsocial attention.
CONCLUSIONS:
The authors pose some hypotheses about a specific early-appearing impairment of attention in ASD in which children shift their spontaneous attention mainly toward nonsocial stimuli rather than toward social stimuli. The importance of this finding for early diagnosis and treatment is underlined.
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Author information
Author/s: Maestro, Sandra (S); Muratori, Filippo (F); Cavallaro, Maria Cristina (MC); Pei, Francesca (F); Stern, Daniel (D); Golse, Bernard (B); Palacio-Espasa, Francisco (F);
Affiliation: Division of Child Nueropsychiatry, Scientific Institute Stella Maris, University of Pisa, Italy.
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Journal: Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Oct; vol 41 (issue 10) : pp 1239-45
Dates: Created 2002/10/04; Completed 2002/10/29; Revised 2006/11/15;
PMID: 12364846, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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