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What's so unusual about a baby fascinated with spinning a cup, or a toddler flapping his hands, or a preschooler walking on her toes?

Parents and even doctors sometimes miss these red flags for autism, but a new online video "glossary" makes them startlingly clear. read more »
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A new way of understanding autistic disorders, incorporating both psychological and biological factors, could lead to the conditions being picked up earlier, research from UNSW has found. This may help medical professionals detect conditions such as Autism and Asperger’s Disorder at an earlier stag read more »
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The ability to detect autism in children as young as nine months of age is on the horizon, according to researchers at McMaster University. The Early Autism Study has been using eye tracker technology that measures eye direction while the babies look at faces, eyes and bouncing balls on a computer read more »
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AT THE tender age of 8 months, Sam's behavior was already unusual. He smiled, but not in response to other people. Nor did he look at people's faces or babble like other children. "He was a very quiet baby," says Sam's mother, Kathy Powell of Tallahassee, Florida. "We dismissed it at first - read more »
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Among U.S. children, 110 of every 10,000 have autism, new estimates from a nationally representative study indicated — a sharp increase from the two to five per 10,000 reported from the 1960s to the 1980s and the 30 to 60 per 10,000 reported in the earlier part of this decade.

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