FSU Researcher Wins $2.4M in Grants to Pursue Early Detection of Autism
By FSU
November 21, 2009
A Florida State University College of Medicine researcher has been awarded two separate grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) totaling $2.4 million to continue her work in detecting autism in children as young as 18 months.
Amy Wetherby is director of the Autism Institute in the College of Medicine. For a decade her FIRST WORDS(R) Project has screened children to identify early red flags of various autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Among those red flags are a child's reluctance to look at the face or eyes of others; a delay in the use of gestures, sounds and words; a tendency not to share excitement or interests; and a fixation on certain objects.
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