Future studies should test this approach in younger and older children, to further prove its effectiveness, researchers said.

More information: Roula Choueiri et al, Demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of patients diagnosed with autism ...

If your child’s healthcare provider does not periodically check your child with a developmental screening test, you can ask that it be done. Diagnosing children with ASD as early as possible is ...

From long wait times to cultural stigma, autism diagnosis remains a challenge worldwide. Here's what’s needed for better ...

Researchers have developed a new test that could detect children with autism years earlier than is currently possible using an eye scanning device. At the moment, diagnosing autism spectrum ...

"With autism, there's no blood test. There's not an objective marker. Ultimately it comes down to a human judgment call based on screening criteria," she says. "So we really depend on physicians ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A community-based screening model using the Rapid Interactive Screening Test for Autism in Toddlers (RITA-T) improves early autism diagnosis, especially in ...

Adding a test that leans on this preference for predictable movements could add another diagnostic tool to the autism toolbox ... marker for early ASD screening and underscores the essential ...