Joint Attention is one of the earliest skills we teach. It encourages social engagement and for the child to bring others into his/her world.
Prerequisite Skills: None
According to the Early Start Denver Model, the progression of Joint Attention skills is:
- Follows a point when an adult points to pictures in a book
- Follows a point to put objects in a container
- Follows a point to place pieces in a puzzle
- Follows a point to look at an object
- If a child doesn’t have steps 1-3, teach separately or incidentally through play.
Here’s a great article from 2005 on Joint Attention that is still relevant today.
Here’s a couple of our blogs for even more information:
1. This one has video.
2. This one does not have video, but it’s a nice step by step.
Here’s some great video explanation that is not our content, but contains great video of students:
