Sorry, if you copy the link it should take you right to it. It is titled
"New Theory in Detecting Autism" under the health section.
Okay I read it but it says it is just a theory. What about the children that have later onset of autism? Jeffrey had normal development until the age of 2 1/2 to 3 years old. So I don't see how that would apply with children like him. He met every milestone on time. And it also could be that maybe the infant is just developmentally delayed at that age. That is why they don't like to diagnose it before the age of 3.
Tammy
TammyNow that's interesting. Thanks for sharing! I remember noticing that my son crawled funny. I don't know if I can describe it accurately, but he swung his arms around instead of the way most babies crawl. We could hear him crawling down the hall because he'd have to grunt quite a bit to sustain the crawl.
Here's a website I found a few years back that lists social development milestones:
http://www.firstsigns.org/healthydev/milestones.htm or http://www.firstsign.org if the first link is broken.
I'm so interested in research like this, because I think the earlier these subtleties are detected, the better. We made so much progress when we intervened at age 2½ with speech (and then more intensively at 3 when we got the official diagnosis), that I often wonder what would have happened had we gotten started a year or two sooner.
Raggie...
Now megans head did not stay upright when you tilted her it moved with her. I know this cause she was in PT at 3 months on for toracalous (cant spell that). She also didnt sit up on time and yes she did a funny crawl tooo which was also late I called it the army crawl lol...