Susan H. Landry

TL;DR: Increased maternal responsiveness facilitated greater growth in target infants' social, emotional, communication, and cognitive competence, supporting a causal role for responsiveness on infant development.

TL;DR: Children, especially preterm children, showed faster cognitive growth when mothers were consistently responsive, and the importance of consistent responsiveness, defined by an affective-emotional construct, was evident even when a broader constellation of parenting behaviors was considered.

TL;DR: The relationship of gestural joint attention behaviors and the development of effective communication skills in autism and developmental language delay (DLD) was investigated by as discussed by the authors, who found that autistic children responded correctly to joint attention interactions more often than autistic children, and their spontaneous gestural behavior was more communicative and developmental advanced.

TL;DR: DLD children's performance suggests no special impairment of joint attention skills, whereas autistic children'sperformance suggests a joint attention deficit in addition to a language deficit.

TL;DR: Growth modeling was used to examine the relation of early parenting behaviors with rates of change in children's cognitive-language and social response and initiating skills assessed at 6, 12, 24, and 40 months, with relations stronger for the HR versus the other two groups.