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Association: Name: XVth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies URL: http://www.isisweb.org
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Messinger, Daniel., Cassel, Tricia., Haltigan, John. and Buchman, Albert. "Early Emotion Sharing and Later Joint Attention Among the Infant Siblings of Children with Autism" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the XVth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Westin Miyako, Kyoto, Japan, Jun 19, 2006 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p93900_index.html>

Messinger, D. , Cassel, T. , Haltigan, J. D. and Buchman, A. , 2006-06-19 "Early Emotion Sharing and Later Joint Attention Among the Infant Siblings of Children with Autism" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the XVth Biennial International Conference on Infant Studies, Westin Miyako, Kyoto, Japan <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p93900_index.html

Publication Type: Individual Poster Abstract: Infant siblings of children diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD-sibs) are at risk for deficits in social and emotional communication. This study compares infants who do and do not (TD-sibs) have an older sibling diagnosed with an ASD. Early positive and negative emotions in the first six-months will be investigated with respect to their relationship with later joint attention behaviors. At five or six-months 28 infants participated in the Face to Face/Still Face Procedure (FFSF). In the FFSF parents are asked to play with their baby for three minutes (FF), stop playing for two minutes (SF), and resume play for another three minutes (RE). Infants participated in the experimenter-conducted Early Social Communication Scales (ESCS) at eight, ten, twelve, fifteen, and eighteen months. All infants participated in the ESCS at least once, and many infants have participated in all visits. Episodes of initiating joint attention (IJA) during the ESCS are coded when an infant initiates eye contact with the experimenter while manipulating a toy or alternates eye contact between an active mechanical toy and the experimenter. Within IJA episodes we also measure Anticipatory Smiles (AS). These are instances of emotion sharing in which the infant gazes at an object the experimenter just activated, smiles, and then gazes at the experimenter while continuing to smile. Preliminary coding using BabyFACS showed a classic pattern in which infants smiled less during the SF episode compared to the FF and RE (see Figure). Although ASD-sibs smiled 19% of the time during the FF and TD-sibs smiled 26% of the time (see Figure) these differences were not significant with the current sample (n = 19). Preliminary correlations (n = 14) indicated a possible relationship between smiling during each episode of the FFSF and IJA at ten months of age. Non-significant correlations (r > .4, p < .1) indicated that children with more IJA at 10 months tended to smile more during the FF, SF, and RE. The final poster will include the entire sample of 28 or more infants and examine whether ASD-sibs evidence less positive and more negative emotion in the FFSF than TD-sibs. We will describe links between early positive and negative emotion in the FFSF have different types of IJA episodes in the ESCS and investigate whether ASD-sibs show fewer IJA and AS behaviors than TD-sibs.

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