January 2009 PMID 20046922

Teaching Discrimination of Adult Gaze Direction to Children with Autism.

Jennifer L Klein, Rebecca F P Macdonald, Gretchen Vaillancourt, William H Ahearn, William V Dube

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Three young children with autism initially struggled to follow adults' gaze shifts to locate objects.
A training program used remote-controlled toys as prompts and rewards, gradually increasing the delay in toy activation after gaze cues.
Over time, all children learned to anticipate the toy activation and locate objects based solely on adult gaze, highlighting how gaze discrimination relates to joint attention challenges in autism.]

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