Infant’s Infrequent Gaze Possible Cue for Autism

.....Scientists discovered that ... the high-risk infants spent less time looking to caregivers and more time concentrating on the nonsocial stimuli (joystick or toy) when the caregiver was not actively engaging them. These results could indicate a disturbance in development related to ‘joint attention,’ which is often a core deficiency in children with autism.....