Signs of autism-spectrum disorders may appear in babies' first year.
The Los Angeles Times (2/23, Healy) "Booster Shots" blog reported that, according to a study of 50 babies published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, "the social disengagement that is the hallmark of autism-spectrum disorders begins to appear in the second half of a baby's first year of life," but "parents typically do not notice the decline in their child's behavior until well into his or her second year." An accompanying editorial "expressed surprise that so few parents of children who would go on to be diagnosed with autism observed the changes in their babies."
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