Joint Attention and Prompting

1. Joint Attention andPrompting Justin Daigle, MA, BCBA, LBA

2. Joint Attention Deficits in social behavior are a defining characteristic of autism (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). The most common areas of social deficit include: A) Lack of Eye Contact B) Lack of Imitation C) Lack of Proper Play Skills D) Lack of Joint Attention

3. Joint Attention “The capacity to use gestures and eye contact to coordinate attention with another person in order to share the experience of an interesting object or event.” (Mundy, Sigman, & Kasari, 1994)

4. Joint Attention Joint Attention has nothing to do with:

5. Joint Attention However, Joint Attention does include Making Eye Contact Appropriate Manding Responding to Name Initiating Interactions “Working” at a Table Any behavior that coordinates attention with another being

6. Joint Attention Two types of Joint Attention Joint Attention Responding Joint Attention Initiation

7. Joint Attention Therapist Client

8. Joint Attention It’s a monkey! Therapist Client This is a “bid” for Joint Attention.

9. Joint Attention Therapist Client

10. Joint Attention The Client was using “Joint Attention Responding” The Therapist was using “Joint Attention Initiation” The example is the most basic version of Joint Attention

11. Joint Attention Therapist Client

12. Joint Attention It’s a monkey! Therapist Client This is a “bid” for Joint Attention.

13. Joint Attention Therapist Client

14. Joint Attention OMG a monkey! Therapist Client

15. Joint Attention Therapist Client

16. Joint Attention Therapist Client

17. Prompting Different Types of Prompting Hand-over-hand Prompting Full Physical Prompting Partial Physical Prompting Gestural Prompting Prompting using Modeling Full Verbal Prompting Partial Verbal Prompting Positional Prompting Proximity Prompting Explain and Demonstrate before leaving