What is it about?
This study raises the question of whether early social-communication skills are related to later cognitive and language outcomes. Especially, we ask whether such a relationship may exist for infants with birthweights under 1501 g.
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Why is it important?
We found that infants who easily initiate joint attention tend to develop stronger cognitive and language skills later, including those born prematurely who may face social communication challenges.
Perspectives
Joint-attention skills proved to be a stronger predictor of later cognitive and language abilities than the Bayley cognitive index.
Professor Lars Smith
University of Oslo
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This page is a summary of: The predictive validity of nonverbal communicative skills in infants with perinatal hazards, Infant Behavior and Development, October 1996, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/s0163-6383(96)90005-3.
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