Intervention in 6-month-olds with autism ameliorates symptoms, alleviates developmental delay

“Infant Start” therapy treats disabling delays before most children are diagnosed with autism.

Sally Rogers, Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science at the UC Davis MIND Institute, discusses her new research in infants as young as 6 months old with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

  • Video published on 8 Sept 2014 by UC Davis Health System.
  • Autism treatment at the earliest age when symptoms of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) appear – sometimes in infants as young as 6 months old – significantly reduces symptoms so that, by age 3, most who received the therapy had neither ASD nor developmental delay, a UC Davis MIND Institute research study has found.
  • Read Intervention in 6-month-olds with autism ameliorates symptoms, alleviates developmental delay, University of California – Davis Health System, NEWS, September 8, 2014.
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