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Research: 'Screen babies for autism'
By Karen Faux,
Nursery World,
7 November 2007
Leading paediatricians in the United States are pushing for all children to be screened for autism at the ages of 18 and 24 months.
A report by Dr Chris Plauche Johnson in Pediatrics, the journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, argues that although the children who exhibit mild symptoms of autism may be the most difficult to detect at an early age, they are the ones who will benefit most from therapies. Around one in every 150 children in the US is affected by an autistic spectrum disorder, according to research by the Developmental Disabilities Monitoring Network. In the...
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