While the Social ABCs intervention effectively targets social-communication skills and positive caregiver-child affect sharing, the previous RCT demonstrated a promising, but non-significant trend toward increased social attention (orienting), which depends on attentional control; the investigators argue that this is another important developmental domain often impaired in ASD. Improving attentional control may reduce or even prevent expression of ASD-related impairments such as emotion dysregulation and impaired social engagement, due to hypothesized relationships in both typical development and ASD. By targeting early attentional control abilities, this research not only also has the potential to enhance understanding of the fundamental mechanisms that drive behavioural dysregulation in ASD, but also to enhance early development in high-risk toddlers.