Effects of age and communication level on eye contact in fragile X males and non‐fragile X autistic males
- 1 February 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in American Journal of Medical Genetics
- Vol. 38 (2-3) , 498-502
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ajmg.1320380271
Abstract
Dyadic social gaze and eye contact were examined in fragile X [fra(X)] males and in non-fra(X) autistic males as a function of age and level of communicative ability. Lag sequential analysis showed that responsive eye contact was highly correlated with age and communicative ability in non-fra(X) autistic males but not in fra(X) males. Older, more communicative non-fra(X) autistic males exhibited more responsive eye contact than their fra(X) cohorts. Implications of these observations for theory and intervention are discussed.Keywords
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