At six months, development of children with autism like those without
Tuesday, October 30, 2012 - 08:03
in Psychology & Sociology
The development of children with autism spectrum disorder is much like that of children without ASD at 6 months of age, but differs afterwards. That's the main finding of the largest prospective, longitudinal study to date comparing children with early and later diagnosis of ASD with children without ASD. Researchers looked at 235 primarily white children with and without an older sibling with autism, testing them at regular intervals from ages 6 to 36 months.