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Joint Attention

Joint attention refers to two people sharing focus on an object or event. It develops in children between 9-15 months and provides an important foundation for social, cognitive, and language development. Strategies for building joint attention include focusing on faces and eye contact, turn-taking play, encouraging a child to shift attention from their toy to another object, and creating situations where a child initiates showing something to the other person. Examples of working on joint attention include playing with objects, during daily routines, and interactive games between the child and caregiver.

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Joint Attention

Joint attention refers to two people sharing focus on an object or event. It develops in children between 9-15 months and provides an important foundation for social, cognitive, and language development. Strategies for building joint attention include focusing on faces and eye contact, turn-taking play, encouraging a child to shift attention from their toy to another object, and creating situations where a child initiates showing something to the other person. Examples of working on joint attention include playing with objects, during daily routines, and interactive games between the child and caregiver.

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Joint Attention

Yuexuan Li
Lily
Introduction
Joint attention means that two
people share each other's attention
to an object or event and are able to
focus on the other person's
attention to that object or event.
This ability develops during the
child's 9-15 months.
Why do we need to focus on
joint attention?
-Because it provides an important foundation for social, cognitive, and language
development.

- Because this is something that is very hard for almost children with autism to do.
Some strategies for building shared
attention:
o Focus on faces/develop eye contact.

o Focus on play and turn-taking.

o Focus on encouraging your child to shift attention from what he/she is


playing with to what you have.

o Focus on creating situations for your child to initiate a request for you to
look at something that interests him/her.
EXAMPLES OF
WORK ON BECOMING PLAY AND TURN TAKING
PARTNERS WITH YOUR CHILD:
• With objects (blocks, dolls, trucks, books, ball, toy house, coloring,
etc.) :
• During the daily routine (getting dressed, riding in the car, getting
ready for bed, taking a bath, looking in the mirror, etc).
• With you (gentle rough-housing games like playing “airplane” or ring
around the rosey, pat-a- cake, tickling, peek-a-boo, making faces, hide
and seek, etc.)

Joint Attention Yuexuan Li Lily
Introduction Joint attention means that two people share each other's attention to an object or event and are able to focu
Why do we need to focus on joint attention? -Because it provides an important foundation for social, cognitive, and language
Some strategies for building shared attention: o Focus on faces/develop eye contact.     o Focus on play and turn-taking. o
EXAMPLES OF WORK ON BECOMING PLAY AND TURN TAKING  PARTNERS WITH YOUR CHILD: : • With objects (blocks, dolls, trucks, books,

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