Babies stare So Early Autism Indicators

signs of autism in children can be observed from an early age or age of the baby. Infant's gaze may be an early indicator for autism.

Researchers at the Kennedy Krieger in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Delaware, trying to make a study that investigated about the baby's gaze.

In that study, researchers created a multi-stumulus social learning, placing the baby in specially designed chair with a joystick (game suspended) are mounted and easily accessible, and put a musical toy located to the right and caretakers (eg mothers) on the left.

Researchers evaluated how quickly babies learn with a joystick to activate the musical toy and how the level of social involvement with the baby's nanny.

The research team found that infants at high risk of autism will spend less time searching for and engage with the nanny. Baby will be more focus on non-social stimuli (toy musical or joystick).

This suggests a disturbance in the growth associated with the baby's attention. During its development, this condition will develop into autism. And in line with the growth and development of infants, will be seen more signs of autism.

"This study shows that certain weaknesses in children, especially autism, can be detected since the child was six months old (when the interaction should have occurred)," said Dr. Rebecca Landa, lead researcher, as quoted by TopNews, Friday (3/9/2010 ).

According to Dr. Landa, infants with autism typically do not interact socially or to move itself. But autism is sometimes the baby can still respond if the mother or guardian provide stimulation, so that these subtle differences can easily be overlooked by some parents.

However, this study did not show evidence of learning disorders in infants at high risk of autism. "Both the baby autism or not, both multi-stimulus learning tasks with the same level," adds Dr. Landa.

These findings suggest that, like the older autistic children, infants at high risk of autism can still benefit from learning or stimulation of the quantity supplied, resulting in a modest effect and gives the opportunity to help its development.

When it is known that early on infants at high risk of autism, parents should often provide stimulation, both social (interaction with the parents) or non-social (using toys). This can reduce the risk of babies developing autism.

To follow up studies, these findings will be published on the Center for Autism and Related Disorders at Kennedy Krieger Institute.