Recruiting

Observational Study

Sponsor:

The Vista School

Code:

NCT01643343

Conditions

Autism Spectrum Disorders

Autism

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 0 - 6

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Study Details

Brief summary:

The purpose of this research is to study joint attention. Joint attention plays a critical role in social and language development in children with and without autism. Joint attention is the shared attention between a child and another person. This study seeks to set a standard benchmark of frequency scores for joint attention. Finding a rate of engaging in joint attention behavior would offer a benchmark for all researchers and practitioners working with learners with and without autism.

Conditions

Autism Spectrum Disorders

Autism

Study ID

NCT01643343

Start date

Oct, 2011

Status verified date

Jul, 2012

Completion date

Oct, 2014

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Oct, 2013

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 0 - 6

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • autism spectrum disorder

Exclusion Criteria:

  • hearing or vision problems
  • behaviors that are a danger to self or others

Study Design

Enrollment

100 participants

Anticipated

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

Typically Developing

Typically developing toddler volunteers between the ages of 8 months and 3 years

Autism

Children between the ages of 8 months and 6 years with a diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder

Central Contacts and Locations

Locations

The Vista School

Recruiting

Hershey, Pennsylvania, United States, 17033

Contacts

Krina Durica

717-583-5102kdurica@thevistaschool.org

Emily Strausbaugh

717-583-5102estrausbaugh@thevistaschool.org

Principal Investigator:

Richard M Kubina, Ph.D., BCBA-D

More Information

Sponsor

The Vista School

Last update posted

Jul 18, 2012

Last verified

Jul, 2012

Keywords

  • autism spectrum disorders
  • autism
  • joint attention
  • imitation
  • fluency

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-08. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by The Vista School on 2012-07-18.