Development of a tool to assess visual attention in Rett syndrome: a pilot study

Figures & data

Figure 1. Schematic view of the setting of the video recorded interactions.

Table 1. Number of focused gazes at partner, object, symbol set, and total number of focused gazes in interaction with and without (w/o) aided language modeling (ALM) for each participant.

	Partner		Object		Symbol		Total
Participant	With ALM	W/o ALM	With ALM	W/o ALM	With ALM	W/o ALM	With ALM	W/o ALM
1	4	6	14	13	13	3	31	22
2	22	9	15	8	8	4	45	12
3	4	4	5	3	0	0	9	7
4	6	1	8	3	4	3	18	7
5	2	3	12	14	6	6	20	23
6	17	6	7	1	3	2	27	9
7	0	1	10	15	9	3	19	19
8	11	11	16	9	6	5	33	25
9	1	2	7	6	4	1	12	9

Table 2. Number of focused gazes in interaction with and without aided language modeling (ALM) for the group.

	With ALM				Without ALM
Gaze Target	Mdn	M	SD	Range	Mdn	M	SD	Range	z
Partner	4	7.44	7.65	0-22	4	4.78	3.53	1-11	−0.681
Object	10	10.44	3.97	5-16	8	8.00	5.17	1-15	−1.605
Symbol set*	6	5.89	3.79	0-13	3	3.00	1.87	0-6	−2.384
Total gazes*	20	23.78	11.32	9-45	19	15.78	7.40	7-25	−2.173

Note. N = 9.

*Significant difference in Mdn between sessions with and without ALM, p < .05 (Wilcoxon signed rank test).