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Woodard, Cooper R.; Van Reet, Jennifer – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2011
Past research has focused on pretend play in infants with autism because it is considered an early manifestation of symbolic or imaginative thinking. Contradictory research findings have challenged the meta-representational model. The intent of this paper is to propose that pretend play is the behavioral manifestation of developing imaginative…
Descriptors: Imagination, Play, Autism, Teaching Methods
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Hutman, Ted; Chela, Mandeep K.; Gillespie-Lynch, Kristen; Sigman, Marian – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2012
We examined social attention and attention shifting during (a) a play interaction between 12-month olds and an examiner and (b) after the examiner pretended to hurt herself. We coded the target and duration of infants' visual fixations and frequency of attention shifts. Siblings of children with autism and controls with no family history of autism…
Descriptors: Siblings, Play, Autism, Attention