Re: New study may lead to earlier autism detection

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this is great to know but not enough is being done after diagnosis! once you get

diagnosis its all on the parents I cant tell you enough what we have been thru

with our three children on the severe side of the spectrum. still its been a

fight from day one even getting a diagnosis . it has been a very devastating

path and I hope things will get better in the future for our children sakes and

the parents that have this tremendous responsibility

you always read in the paper how much is going on but we still are not seeing

the services ihn nj I know this family is not anyway not sure about anyone else

.. I know there are lots of cuts even had to change schools just to get more

speech and forget pt they wanted to cut my daughter on that one.

Tim

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New study may lead to earlier autism detection

Characteristics of autism may be present as early as one month after birth.

The idea that an autistic child could be diagnosed as an infant—and therefore

be

able to get the earliest treatment possible—is intriguing to experts in the

field.

A new study of babies who'd been placed in the neo-natal intensive care unit

after birth was originally intended to research infant development.

" This was not meant to be an autism study, but they went back and said: 'We have

some features here that can differentiate the kids with autism compared with

kids who don't,’†said Dr. Max Wiznitzer, University Hospitals Rainbow

Babies &

Children’s Hospital.

Some of the children who were later diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder had

developmental anomalies as young babies—differences in muscle tone and how

they

responded to noises and visual patterns. The differences were subtle, which

experts say could not be identified by a parent and it's too early to generalize

these findings to healthy newborns.

" These were babies who were sick enough that they ended up in an intensive care

unit and then were followed afterwards to monitor their development, " Wiznitzer

said.

These red flags could be used in future infant autism studies. The hope is to

find solid autism markers that doctors can look for.

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