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2012: Awareness Year – Red Lights

Research carried out at the Mifne Center in 2000-2005 resulted in 8 markers that can indicate pre-Autism:

1. Excessive passivity (lack of crying, lack of interest in surroundings)
2. Excessive activity (lack of physical calmness, incessant crying)
3. Refusal or resistance to feeding or nursing (breastfeeding/others)
4. Lack of reaction to voice or presence of a parent (doesn’t turn his head, doesn’t smile, doesn’t babble)
5. Aversion to parental touch (or any other person)
6. Lack of direct eye contact (can follow objects)
7. Delayed motor development (followed by hypotonic/high stiff muscle tone)
8. Rapid growth of the circumference of the head (in relation to the initial point).

At least two characteristics of the eight signs must exist, over a period of at least three weeks.