Joint Attention: Development, Impairment and Management
Aya Adel Mohammed Hassan;
Abstract
Joint attention is an early social-communicative behavior in which two people share attentional focus on an object or event.
Types of joint attention (JA):
Parallel JA shows interaction in which both social partners are attending to the same object or location, but there is no evidence of awareness of the presence of the social partner.
Coordinated JAwhich is triadic interaction of coordinating attention towards a social partner and an object or location of mutual interest.
Forms and function of JA:
Coordinated JA is subdivided into two forms: responding to joint attention (RJA) and initiating joint attention(IJA). Responding to joint attention (RJA) refers to infants’ ability to follow the direction of the gaze and gestures of others in order to share a common point of reference. Alternatively, initiating joint attention(IJA) involves infants’ use of gestures and eye contact to direct others’ attention to objects, to events, and to themselves. The function of IJA is to show or spontaneously seek to share interests or pleasurable experience with others, not to request others to bring something.
The function of joint attention is social.The child indicates an object through pointing, showing, giving; as a means of obtaining adult attention(protodeclarative), reflecting the infant’s growing understanding of the world and motivation to interact with adults about interesting objects.
Development of JA:
As early as 3 months of age, infants will share eye contact and show enjoyment with a caregiver and then turn to look at what the adult looks at. Beginning around 8 months of age, children will share attention by shifting gaze from person to object and back to the first person, and around 12 months they use gestures to direct attention. By 12 to 15 months of age, this develops into coordinated joint attention that involves following the adult’s lead in play as well as initiating turns.
The neural network of JA:
Joint attention is an outcome of two interacting attention-regulation systems.One is the posterior orienting and perceptual attention system, which plays a primary role in RJA development in infancy. This relatively involuntary system begins to develop in the first months of life. It is
Types of joint attention (JA):
Parallel JA shows interaction in which both social partners are attending to the same object or location, but there is no evidence of awareness of the presence of the social partner.
Coordinated JAwhich is triadic interaction of coordinating attention towards a social partner and an object or location of mutual interest.
Forms and function of JA:
Coordinated JA is subdivided into two forms: responding to joint attention (RJA) and initiating joint attention(IJA). Responding to joint attention (RJA) refers to infants’ ability to follow the direction of the gaze and gestures of others in order to share a common point of reference. Alternatively, initiating joint attention(IJA) involves infants’ use of gestures and eye contact to direct others’ attention to objects, to events, and to themselves. The function of IJA is to show or spontaneously seek to share interests or pleasurable experience with others, not to request others to bring something.
The function of joint attention is social.The child indicates an object through pointing, showing, giving; as a means of obtaining adult attention(protodeclarative), reflecting the infant’s growing understanding of the world and motivation to interact with adults about interesting objects.
Development of JA:
As early as 3 months of age, infants will share eye contact and show enjoyment with a caregiver and then turn to look at what the adult looks at. Beginning around 8 months of age, children will share attention by shifting gaze from person to object and back to the first person, and around 12 months they use gestures to direct attention. By 12 to 15 months of age, this develops into coordinated joint attention that involves following the adult’s lead in play as well as initiating turns.
The neural network of JA:
Joint attention is an outcome of two interacting attention-regulation systems.One is the posterior orienting and perceptual attention system, which plays a primary role in RJA development in infancy. This relatively involuntary system begins to develop in the first months of life. It is
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| Title | Joint Attention: Development, Impairment and Management | Other Titles | الانتباه المشترك : التطور والامراض وكيفية التقييم والعلاج | Authors | Aya Adel Mohammed Hassan | Issue Date | 2016 |
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