Rebecca Shaffer is associate professor of pediatrics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital in Ohio.
Rebecca Shaffer
Assistant professor
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
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The reasons some people with autism don’t make eye contact may differ between childhood and adulthood.
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