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From Volume 3 Number 12
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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