Considerations for Measuring Caregiver Talk in Interactions With Infants at Elevated and Population-Level Likelihood for Autism: Deriving Stable Estimates

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Bottema-Beutel, K., Guo, R., Braun, C., Dunham-Carr, K., Markfeld, J. E., Pulliam, G., Clark, S. M., Keçeli-Kaysılı, B., Feldman, J. I., & Woynaroski, T. (2024). Considerations for Measuring Caregiver Talk in Interactions With Infants at Elevated and Population-Level Likelihood for Autism: Deriving Stable Estimates. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 68(1), 234-247. https://doi.org/10.1044/2024_jslhr-24-00312

Publication date: 16 Dec 2024 Added to AutiHub: 9 Sep 2026 Type: Article Article language: English

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Abstract

Purpose: This study aims to help researchers design observational measurement systems that yield sufficiently stable scores for estimating caregiver talk among caregivers of infant siblings of autistic and non-autistic children. Stable estimates minimize error introduced by facets of the measurement system, such as variability between coders or measurement sessions. Method: Analyses of variance were used to partition error variance between coder and session and to derive g coefficients. Decision studies determined the number of sessions and coders over which scores must be averaged to achieve sufficiently stable g coefficients (0.80). Twelve infants at elevated likelihood of an autism diagnosis and 12 infants with population-level likelihood of autism diagnosis participated in two semistructured observation sessions when the children were 12–18 months of age and again 9 months later. Caregiver follow-in talk was coded from these sessions. Results: Two sessions and one coder were needed to achieve sufficient stability for follow-in talk and follow-in comments for both groups of infants at both time points. However, follow-in directives did not reach sufficient stability for any combination of sessions or coders for the population-level likelihood group at either time point, or for the elevated likelihood group at Time 2. Conclusion: Researchers should plan to collect at least two sessions to derive sufficiently stable estimates of caregiver talk in infants at elevated and general population–level likelihood for autism. Supplemental Material: https://doi.org/10.23641/asha.27996875

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