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Doctors' Group Recommends Screening Every Baby for Autism

The American Academy of Pediatrics has changed its guidelines on autism screening in infants.

The new recommendations require doctors to conduct formal screenings on every child at ages eighteen months and twenty-four months. Doctors will look for symptoms such as failure to make eye contact, communication delays like a lack of babbling or pointing to objects, or any kind of regression. Two-year-olds usually have two-word phrases and some social skills.

"If you recognize it earlier, you get them into treatment earlier," said Dr. Scott Myers, a pediatrician who helps other doctors manage and identify autism.

Autism is a complex developmental disorder with symptoms that range from mild awkwardness to severe mental retardation. It affects one in every 150 American children and seems to be on the rise.

The new recommendations appear in the journal Pediatrics.

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