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Joint Attention in Typically Developing Infants and 30-Month Behavioral Outcomes Abstract To determine whether individual differences in joint attention skills were uniquely related to behavioral outcome, the capacity to respond to joint attention (RJA) and gaze alternating (GA) behavior were assessed at 8-months of age in nineteen typically developing infants. Behavioral outcome, and expressive and receptive language, were assessed at 30 months. Findings indicated that individual differences in RJA skills at 8 months were negatively associated with social withdrawal and other problems, and positively associated with compliance, expressiveness, and prosocial behavior. A similar pattern of correlations emerged between 8-month GA behavior and behavioral outcome, although only the association between GA and other problems reached significance. After controlling for 30-month language status, individual differences in RJA at 8 months made a significant contribution to 30-month social withdrawal, compliance, expressiveness, and prosocial behavior.
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