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Autism Detection Can Begin at 9 Months
, 05 22nd, 2008
Researchers at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada have found that autism detection can begin as early as nine months.
The Early Autism Study, led by Mel Rutherford, associate professor of psychology in the Faculty of Science, has been using eye tracker technology that measures eye direction while the babies look at faces, eyes, and bouncing balls on a computer screen.
Rutherford presented her peer-reviewed research at the 7th Annual International Meeting for Autism Research in London.
At present time, the earliest diagnostic test for autism is reliable around the age of two, and most children in Canada are diagnosed around age three or four.
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