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Cartoons 'could help spot autism'

(BBC 30/03/2009)

Watching how a toddler responds to animations could help diagnose autism, research has suggested. Babies usually start paying attention to movement soon after birth, and pick up information from the cues they see but children with autism often do not. A study, published in Nature, where two-year-olds were shown manipulated animations found those with autism focussed on movement linked to sound.

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