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The Early Social Communication Scales is a structured assessment designed to provide measures of individual differences in nonverbal communication skills in children with mental ages between 8 and 30 months of age. The administration requires 15–25 min involving the presentation of approximately 17 tasks which provide opportunities for social communication. Tasks include the presentation of object spectacle toys (e.g., a wind-up toy), turn-taking tasks (e.g., ball play), social interaction (e.g., tickling), gaze following tasks, and opportunities to respond to an invitation to play. The child is typically seated across the table from the examiner, and may be either seated in a chair or seated in their parent’s lap.
The session is videotaped and from the recordings, observers classify children’s behaviors into the following mutually exclusive categories of early social-communication: joint attention behaviors (use of nonverbal behaviors to share experiences),...
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Steiner, A. (2013). Early Social-Communication Scales (ESCS). In: Volkmar, F.R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Autism Spectrum Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1698-3_287
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