This study aims to create novel multidimensional models to characterize the prelinguistic developmental pathways leading to verbal and minimally verbal outcomes in children with ASD. This study utilizes Continuous-Time Hidden Markov Models to track progressions of prelinguistic communication across areas of attention, vocalizations, gestures, and comprehension from 18-36 months in children with ASD and to identify unique multidimensional trajectories that predict which children remain minimally verbal at age 5. The project is developing a novel method for quantifying a child’s risk of a minimally verbal outcome at age 5 given their prelinguistic communication progressions at earlier points in development.

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