Early Recognition Of 1-Year-Old Infants With Autism Spectrum Disorder
versus mental retardation
http://click.topica.com/maaanI2aaSlega4vAPWb/
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Osterling JA, Dawson G, Munson JA.
Center on Human Development and Disability, University of Washington,
Seattle 98195, USA. osterlin@u.washington.edu
Previous work based on observations of home videotapes indicates that
differences can be detected between infants with autism spectrum disorder
and infants with typical development at 1 year of age. The present study
addresses the question of whether autism can be distinguished from mental
retardation by 1 year of age.
Home videotapes of first birthday parties from 20 infants later
diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, 14 infants later diagnosed with
mental retardation (without autism), and 20 typically developing infants
were coded by blind raters with respect to the frequencies of specific
social and communicative behaviors and repetitive motor actions.
Results indicated that 1-year-olds with autism spectrum disorder can
be distinguished from 1-year-olds with typical development and those with
mental retardation.
The infants with autism spectrum disorder looked at others and
oriented to their names less frequently than infants with mental
retardation. The infants with autism spectrum disorder and those with mental
retardation used gestures and looked to objects held by others less
frequently and engaged in repetitive motor actions more frequently than
typically developing infants. These results indicate that autism can be
distinguished from mental retardation and typical development by 1 year of
age.
PMID: 12030690 [PubMed - in process]
This is my interpretation - early insult (vaccines, etc) lay the foundation for autism to develop. It's not the MMR that is the culprit, but the combination of early vaccines and the MMR. The more vaccines before the MMR, the more children are triggered by the MMR and the more severely the children are triggered.
If you can tell at age 1 those children who are going down the path toward autism, and if you avoid future vaccinations, boost their immune systems, chelate, etc., these kids might be able to avoid becoming autistic.
It's a start...
Andrea
