Autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder defined by impairments in social and
communication development, accompanied by stereotyped patterns of behavior and …

There is growing evidence that cumulative exposure to highly responsive parenting styles
throughout the early childhood period may provide a variety of important child benefits in …

Individual differences in young children's language acquisition reflect in part the variability in
the language-learning environment that they experience, both at home and in the …

We analyzed the microstructure of child-adult interaction during naturalistic, daylong,
automatically labeled audio recordings (13,836 hr total) of children (8-to 48-month-olds) with …

This study examined social communication profiles from behavior samples videotaped
between 18 and 24 months of age in three groups of children: 50 with autism spectrum …

Thirty-five children who received an autism spectrum diagnosis at the age of 2 years (24 with
autism, 11 with PDD-NOS) were re-evaluated 2 years later to examine factors related to the …

Purpose This study examined short-term predictive associations between 5 different types of
parent verbal responsiveness and later spoken vocabulary for 32 young children with a …

This study tested the effect of a method of facilitating prelinguistic communication on parents'
responsivity and children's communication and productive language development. The …

Joint attention, a foundational nonverbal social-communicative milestone that fails to
develop naturally in autism, was promoted for three toddlers with early-identified autism …

Developmental science is concerned with both consistency and change in characteristics
through time. Consistency and change in development are tracked by group mean‐level …