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Early Child Development and Care Volume 180, 2010 - Issue 4
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Children with autism are more imitative with an imitative adult than with their parents

Tiffany Field Touch Research Institutes, University of Miami Medical School, Miami, FL, USA; Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, CA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Jacqueline Nadel Laboratoire de Psycho‐Biologie Du Development, Paris, France
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Miguel Diego Touch Research Institutes, University of Miami Medical School, Miami, FL, USA
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Maria Hernandez‐Reif University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
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Kelly Russo Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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Diane Vchulek Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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Kim Lendi Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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Vijaya Siddalingappa Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, CA, USA
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Pages 513-518 | Received 13 Feb 2007, Accepted 28 Mar 2008, Published online: 19 May 2008
 
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Abstract

Children with autism (mean age = 6 years) were videotaped first interacting with a parent and then with an unfamiliar researcher who imitated the child’s behaviours. The researcher showed more imitative and playful behaviours than the parents. In turn, the children showed more imitative behaviour when playing with the imitative researcher than with their parents.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the parents and children who participated in this study and the research associates who assisted us. This research was supported by a Merit Award (MH no. 46586), an NIH grant (AT no. 00370), Senior Research Scientist Awards (MH no. 00331 and AT no. 001585), and a March of Dimes Grant (no. 12‐FYO3‐48) to Tiffany Field and funding from Johnson and Johnson Pediatric Institute to the Touch Research Institute.

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