Translating advances in developmental social neuroscience into greater access to early diagnosis in autism spectrum disorder.

ABSTRACT: Early identification and diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is necessary to promote access to early treatment, a critical factor in optimizing children's lifetime outcomes. And yet, diagnosis is often late, delaying interventions to a time in which symptoms have aggravated and communication skills already show impairing differences. This review illustrates progress in developmental social neuroscience that shows promise in generating novel tools for objective and cost-effective early diagnosis of ASD. We focus on research of social visual engagement, which is the way infants and toddlers look at and learn from their social environment. Moment-by-moment quantification of social visual engagement is yielding measures that are beginning to approximate best-practice procedures used by

SUBMITTER: Klin A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10842589 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature