Mechanism For Social Development Found To Be Absent In Autistic Children

Monday, March 30, 2009 - 22:14 in Psychology & Sociology

Two-year-olds with autism lack an important building block of social interaction that prompts newborn babies to pay attention to other people. Instead, these children pay attention to physical relationships between movement and sound and miss critical social information.

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