J. Steven Reznick

TL;DR: The visual scanpaths of five high-functioning adult autistic males and five adult male controls were recorded using an infrared corneal reflection technique as they viewed photographs of human faces to suggest a mechanism that may subserve the social information processing deficits that characterize autism spectrum disorders.

TL;DR: The MacArthur Communicative Development Inventories (CDI) as mentioned in this paper are a pair of widely used parent-report instruments for assessing communicative skills in infants and toddlers, and they have been widely used in clinical applications.

TL;DR: A new instrument designed to measure the broad autism phenotype in adults, the Broad Autism Phenotype Questionnaire (BAPQ), was administered to 86 parents of autistic individuals and 64 community control parents and found sensitivity and specificity of the BAPQ for detecting the B AP were high.

TL;DR: The results highlight the importance of sensitive parenting and suggest that the association between negative-intrusive parenting and language development may depend upon family context.

TL;DR: Visual orienting latencies were longer in 7-month-old infants who expressed ASD symptoms at 25 months compared with both high-risk negative infants and low-risk infants, and abnormal functional specialization of posterior cortical circuits directly informs a novel model of ASD pathogenesis.