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DaSilva for The New York Times A camera operator observed Carmen and Saul Aguilar during a therapy session with their son Emilio at 7 months old. Emilio showed signs of autism, and his older brother, Diego, received a diagnosis at age 2. By April Dembosky, NY Times xrl.in/6lpp In the three years since her son Diego was given a diagnosis of autism at age 2, Carmen

Aguilar has made countless contributions to research on this perplexing disorder. She has donated all manner of biological samples and agreed to keep journals of everything she’s eaten, inhaled or rubbed on her skin. Researchers attended the birth of her second son, Emilio, looking on as she pushed, leaving with Tupperware containers full of tissue samples, the placenta and the baby’s first stool. Now the family is in yet another study, part of an effort by a network of scientists across North America to look for signs of autism as early as 6 months. (Now, the condition cannot be diagnosed reliably before age 2.) And here at the MIND Institute at the University of California Medical Center, researchers are watching babies like Emilio in a pioneering effort to determine whether they can benefit from specific treatments. So when Emilio did show

signs of autism risk at his 6-month evaluation — not making eye contact, not smiling at people, not babbling, showing unusual interest in objects — his parents eagerly accepted an offer to enroll him in a treatment program called Infant Start. The treatment is based on a daily therapy, the Early Start Denver Model, that is based on games and pretend play. It has been shown in randomized trials to significantly improve I.Q., language and social skills in toddlers with autism, and researchers say it has even greater potential if it can be started earlier. “What you ultimately might be doing is preventing a certain proportion of autism from ever emerging,†said Mandell, the associate director of the Center for Autism Research at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “I’m not saying you’re curing these kids, but you may be changing their developmental trajectory

enough by intervening early enough that they never go on to meet criteria for the disorder. And you can’t do that if you keep waiting for the full disorder to emerge." Sally , a MIND Institute researcher who has been working with the Aguilars, said she faced

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