Children as young as one year old 'can show signs of autism' (extract)

SEATTLE, USA: University of Washington researchers conclude in a new study that children as young as one year old can show signs of autism.
       The study released on August 1 in the Archives of General Psychiatry found that one-year-olds later diagnosed with early-onset autism are less likely than other children to babble or point at objects and people.
       The study also found that children with a different kind of autism, autistic regression, used complex baby talk twice as much as typical infants by the age of one and then regressed significantly by their second birthday.
       The University of Washington research, led by Dr Geraldine Dawson, director of the University of Washington Autism Center, was based on the behavioural analysis of 56 children videotaped on their first and second birthdays.The videos included children with no developmental disabilities and kids with early-onset autism or autistic regression.
       The research provides the first hard evidence for autistic regression. The disorder accounts for an estimated 25 per cent of all diagnosed cases in the United States … 

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