Both Video Feedback and In Vivo Self-Monitoring has been used to improve social interactions for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders. State and Kern have published a study comparing the effectiveness and user satisfaction of these two procedures. In their study they found that in vivo self-monitoring were the most effective end preferred. This study included just one participants so the results may not be transferable to other children and settings.
Children with autism spectrum disorders display deficits in joint attention, which may affect areas such as language, regulation and perspective-taking. In the recent years there has been a lot of focus on joint attention interventions for children with autism. According to Lawton and Kasari (2012) the main focus in this research has been on increasing the quantity of joint attention for young children with autism. Now Lawton and Kasari have investigated if the quantitative effect of a recent published randomized-controlled study also improved the quality of joint attention for those children.
Based on the review of these results the researchers found improvement also in the quality of joint attention, based on increases in the frequency of shared positive affect during joint attention as well as shared positive affect with utterances during joint attention. Positive affect during joint attention was understood as the child directing a smile towards the adult during joint attention.
Interventions has to target all relevant aspects of behavior, such as frequency, intensity, quality etc. It is essential with research investigating all relevant aspects.
Children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are often reported to spend a lot of time engaged in screen based media, such as TV, computers and video games. But there are not a lot of research done in investigating this issue. Now Mazurek and colleagues have investigated this in the sample of the NAtional Longitudal Transition Study – 2. This study confirms the general perception that individuals with ASD spend more time using non-social screen media than others.
Both Video Feedback and In Vivo Self-Monitoring has been used to improve social interactions for children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders. State and Kern have published a study comparing the effectiveness and user satisfaction of these two procedures. In their study they found that in vivo self-monitoring were the most effective end preferred. This study included just one participants so the results may not be transferable to other children and settings.