Teaching parents to respond to cues from babies at high risk of autism eases the severity of autism features at age 3.

Patterns of brain activity in 6-month-old babies accurately predict which children will be diagnosed with autism at age 2.

Coaching parents to provide early social stimulation may improve outcomes for children with autism.

Children with autism are often clumsy, physically awkward or uncoordinated. This understudied and nearly ubiquitous feature has researchers contemplating a new idea: Could motor problems be one source of autism’s social difficulties?

Infant siblings of children with autism who also have the condition show motor problems into their second year.

Infants who are later diagnosed with autism show inconsistent patterns of brain waves in response to the same sound.

A video-based screening tool can flag infants who are later diagnosed with autism as early as 6 months.

Children with autism who have both severe repetitive behaviors and sensory sensitivities tend to have had unusually structured nerve tracts in infancy.

Some infants who are later diagnosed with autism have too much fluid between the brain and skull.

Decoding distortions in the brain’s largest nerve tract could lay bare basic problems with long-range neural connections in autism.