{"id":4581,"date":"2018-07-10T10:12:46","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T14:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/?p=4581"},"modified":"2018-07-10T10:12:46","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T14:12:46","slug":"choi_jneurodevdisord2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/2018\/07\/10\/choi_jneurodevdisord2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Development of fine motor skills is associated with expressive language outcomes in infants at high and low risk for autism spectrum disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A paper published in the Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders this year by Boin Choi, a student in Dr. Charles Nelson&#8217;s lab at Harvard University, and in collaboration with Helen, our director, found that fine motor skills are associated with expressive language outcomes in high-risk infants. They found that high-risk infants who were later diagnosed with ASD had significantly slower growth in fine motor skills between 6 months of age and 2 years of age, and that fine motor skills at 6 months of age predicted expressive language outcomes at 3 years of age.<\/p>\n<p>You can download the paper here:\u00a0<a href=\"\/autism\/files\/2018\/07\/Choi_JNeurodevDisor_2018.pdf\">Choi_JNeurodevDisor_2018<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/autism\/files\/2018\/07\/Choi_JNeurodevDisor_2018.jpg\"><\/a><a href=\"\/autism\/files\/2018\/07\/Choi_JNeurodevDisor_2018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/autism\/files\/2018\/07\/Choi_JNeurodevDisor_2018-650x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"272\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/files\/2018\/07\/Choi_JNeurodevDisor_2018-650x272.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/files\/2018\/07\/Choi_JNeurodevDisor_2018-768x321.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/files\/2018\/07\/Choi_JNeurodevDisor_2018.jpg 1011w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A paper published in the Journal of Neurodevelopmental Disorders this year by Boin Choi, a student in Dr. Charles Nelson&#8217;s lab at Harvard University, and in collaboration with Helen, our director, found that fine motor skills are associated with expressive language outcomes in high-risk infants. They found that high-risk infants who were later diagnosed with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13963,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13963"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4581"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4599,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581\/revisions\/4599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/autism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}