Kellerman 2020 research dump

 Demonstrates importance of early dyadic interactions for development among children with and without ASD.

How does mother responsiveness and synchrony affect brain? Would be very interesting to exam potential differences in neural structure and connectivity in children with parents that underwent responsiveness training.

Behavioral coding is very informative but objective psychophysiological/neural measures are needed to strengthen findings (my personal experience with behavior coding videos has really confirmed the subjective nature of this measure).

IFSP goals for Birth to Three are child-based (e.g. Bobby will produce 2 words to indicate his needs during mealtime). I think  we should also include parent-based goals (Karen will smile in response to Bobby's vocalizations in 80% of opportunities or imitate 3 of Bobby's vocalizations during mealtime)

Blume 2020 mind/research dump

Do difficulties with social disengagement (sticky attention) influence difficulties with joint attention?

In longitudinal studies, examine effect of imitation (both child and caregiver) on future language/social development. Hypothesis- Children of caregivers who follow their child's lead and imitate the child's sounds and actions have better language/social skills than children of caregivers who are more directive. And children who imitate are more likely to have superior social/communication skills than those who do not.

• perhaps imitation is a particularly powerful predict of later social and communication skills because in order to imitate an another individual you must be attending to them 
• imitating a child's (td and non td) actions/words seems to be a particularly effective way to gain their attention.