Sandeep Ravindran

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Sandeep Ravindran is a freelance science writer based in Brooklyn, New York.

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Spectrum

By Sandeep Ravindran

6 April 2010

7 min read

Autism symptoms emerge in infancy, sibling study finds

At 6 months of age, babies who will later develop autism begin to lose some of their social skills and continue to regress until age 3, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry.

Spectrum

Autism symptoms emerge in infancy, sibling study finds

By Sandeep Ravindran

6 April 2010 | 7 min read

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