Kids with autism like a sight-sound match

摘要

Even at the tender age of 2, kids with autism observe the world in a fundamentally different way to their non-autistic peers. Instead of being drawn to the movements of living creatures, they are transfixed by motion that is synchronised with sound.rnThe discovery was made by Ami Klin of Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, and colleagues. As well as leading to earlier screening and intervention, Klin reckons this preference could be a driving force behind some of autism's characteristic traits. By causing babies' developing brains to miss out on key social cues, it may contribute to some of the social difficulties that people with autism experience later on.