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In a population-based cohort study in Scotland, Abiodun Adanikin and colleagues study the association of birthweight centiles and motor, communication, and social developmental concerns identified at ages 2 to 3.5 years of age.
KUALA LUMPUR: A national autism council will be formed by this year and a paper on the matter will be presented to the Cabinet soon, says Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin.
Screen media use in early childhood has largely increased in recent years, even more so during the COVID-19 epidemic, and there is much discussion regarding its influence on neurodevelopment, including Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). We examined the relationship between use of TV, computer, tablet and smartphone at age 2 years and risk of ASD assessed in telephone-based questionnaires among 12,950 children participating in the nationally representative ELFE (‘Etude Longitudinale Française sur les Enfants’) birth cohort study in France. In inverse-probability weighted ...
Findings indicate the benefit of using early autism developmental surveillance from infancy to the preschool period rather than one-time screening.
Australian researchers say their screening tool successfully diagnoses autism in toddlers aged 12-24 months. That's three years earlier than current methods.