Clinician guide
How to Document Joint-Attention Evidence and Limits
Document joint-attention evidence with shared-event, bid, response, access, opportunity, partner, engagement, alternative-purpose, timing, and design-limit details.
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Clinician guide
How to Reassess Joint Attention After Partner, Context, or Access Changes
Reassess joint attention after partner, context, or access changes by preserving phases, repairing conditions, and collecting focused follow-up evidence.
Clinician guide
How to Assess Partner Behavior and Opportunity Availability in Joint Attention
Assess whether partners create accessible opportunities, notice and follow client bids, wait, acknowledge, repair breakdowns, follow topics, and avoid overprompting.
Clinician guide
How to Assess Joint Engagement Without a Social-Compliance Shortcut
Assess joint engagement using accessible activity, choice, contribution, communication, clear timing, disengagement, partner behavior, and valued outcomes.
Clinician guide
How to Measure Joint-Attention Opportunities and Partner Follow-Through
Measure joint-attention opportunities, accessible bids, client responses, partner acknowledgment, repair, continuation, invalidity, prompting, and agreement.
Clinician guide
How to Separate Joint Attention From Requesting and Information Seeking
Separate sharing, requesting, and information seeking by preserving messages, referents, desired outcomes, information gaps, partner responses, and mixed purposes.
Clinician guide
How to Assess Initiating Joint Attention Through Accessible Communication
Assess person-authored joint-attention bids using eligible events, accessible communication, partner response, prompt status, topic choice, and engagement.
Clinician guide
How to Assess Responding to a Joint-Attention Bid Without Gaze Bias
Assess joint-attention responses through speech, AAC, gesture, movement, action, and acknowledgment while separating referent access from face gaze.
Clinician guide
How to Define a Shared Event, Bid, and Partner Response
Define a shared event, client-authored bid, partner availability and response, accessible message forms, timing, acknowledgment, repair, refusal, and completion.
Clinician guide
How to Define a Joint-Attention Assessment Question
Define a joint-attention assessment question using the shared event, partner, bids and responses, opportunities, partner actions, context, and action rules.
Clinician guide
How to Document Imitation and Observational-Learning Evidence and Limits
Document imitation and observational learning using model and response definitions, access, opportunity rules, accuracy, comparisons, alternatives, and limits.
Clinician guide
How to Reassess Imitation After Task, Model, or Access Changes
Reassess imitation after task or model changes by preserving phases, identifying new demands, repairing access, and collecting decision-relevant evidence.
