Signs of autism can be present at the age of one year, and a simple checklist could help screen of physicians, researchers say.
The babies who are not socially engaged, gesturing or babbling may raise flags for parents and family physicians.
In the issue on Thursday in the journal of Pediatrics, researchers in San Diego describe testing of a checklist of testing to find the language or development delays, conducted on the currently babies.
Testing uses a 24-issue which can be easily understood and responded by parents in five minutes approximately.
Neuroscientist Karen Pierce, of the University of California, San Diego, has led to the study of 137 pediatricians that the questionnaire in audits of one year and babies who did not have further testing. Children have been reevaluated all the six months to three years, when the diagnosis is more certain.
Babies who have been eliminated, 1,318 failed. Then, 346, these babies were referred to test more and 32 finally received a diagnosis of autism, language delay or developmental delay.
It is unclear why 972 children who do not have were never targeted for follow-up. It is possible there are errors in the records, physicians, and parents were not enough concerned to follow immediately, or elsewhere went to evaluate families.
"The screen just said something is bad - it does not tell you what is the problem,"said Pierce. ". The screen "will tell you what you should do."
Screening predict with accuracy a problem in 75% of the targeted children.
It is hoped that by identifying the problems more quickly, children can start receiving interventions earlier.
"You are now saying in a family," your child is showing warning signs at 12 months. ". "If you have nothing to give them in terms of treatment and intervention, you are defining a significant anxiety, for", said Suzanne Lanthier, Executive Director of the Autism Speaks Canada, whose 11-year-old son has autism and gets treatment.
Researchers that future studies should validate and refine the screening tool, follow the children to a much older age and assess the barriers to treatment.
The study was funded by the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health autism Centre of Excellence, Autism Speaks and the Organization for autism research.
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