Development of Adaptive Communication Skills in Infants of Blind Parents

Autor/inn/en	Ganea, Natasa; Hudry, Kristelle; Vernetti, Angélina; Tucker, Leslie; Charman, Tony; Johnson, Mark H.; Senju, Atsushi
Titel	Development of Adaptive Communication Skills in Infants of Blind Parents
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 54 (2018) 12, S.2265-2273 (9 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000564
Schlagwörter	Communication Skills; Infants; Blindness; Parents; Parent Child Relationship; Interaction; Language Acquisition; Infant Behavior; Nonverbal Communication; Responses + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kommunikationsstil; Infant; Toddler; Toddlers; Kleinkind; Blindheit; Eltern; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Interaktion; Sprachaneignung; Spracherwerb; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation
Abstract	A fundamental question about the development of communication behavior in early life is how infants acquire adaptive communication behavior that is well-suited to their individual social environment, and how the experience of parent-child communication affects this development. The current study investigated how infants develop communication skills when their parents are visually impaired and cannot see their infants' eye gaze. We analyzed 6-min video recordings of naturalistic interaction between 14 sighted infants of blind parents (SIBP) with (a) their blind parent, and (b) a sighted experimenter. Data coded from these interactions were compared with those from 28 age-matched sighted infants of sighted parents (controls). Each infant completed two visits, at 6-10 months and 12-16 months of age. Within each interaction sample, we coded the function (initiation or response) and form (face gaze, vocalization, or action) of each infant communication behavior. When interacting with their parents, SIBP made relatively more communicative responses than initiations, and used more face gaze and fewer actions to communicate, than did controls. When interacting with a sighted experimenter, by contrast, SIBP made slightly (but significantly) more communicative initiations than controls, but otherwise used similar forms of communication. The differential communication behavior by infants of blind versus sighted parents was already apparent by 6-10 months of age, and was specific to communication with the parent. These results highlight the flexibility in the early development of human communication behavior, which enables infants to optimize their communicative bids and methods to their unique social environment. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01