Table 1 Five categories of early signs: number of cases and percentage
From: Early features of autism spectrum disorder: a cross-sectional study
Social interaction and relationships | 98/ 105 93.3% | Language | 97/ 105 92.4% | Stereotyped behaviors and activities | 82/ 105 78.1% | Motor skills | 60/ 105 57.1% | Regulation: feeding disorders | 46/ 105 43.8% | |
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Abnormal social interaction with peers | 80/ 105 76.2% | Language delay | 59/ 105 56.2% | Psychomotor agitation/aggression | 47/ 105 44.8% | Gross motor developmental delay | 46/ 105 43.8% | Selective feeding | 27/ 105 25.7% | |
Abnormal social interaction with parents/caregivers | 22/ 105 21.0% | Regression/stagnation | 31/ 105 29.5% | Hypoactivity | 17/ 105 16.2% | Absence of sucking reflex | 17/ 105 16.2% | Scarce feeding | 12/ 105 11.4% | |
Absence of stranger anxiety | 29/ 105 27.6% | Echolalia | 15/ 105 14.3% | Stereotypies | 48/ 105 45.7% | Fine motor development delay | 8/ 105 7.6% | Other feeding disorders | 25/ 105 23.8% | |
Lack of social smile | 25/ 105 23.8% | Comprehension deficit | 54/ 105 51.4% | Atypical games | 44/ 105 41.9% | Neonatal hypotonia | 9/ 105 8.6% | Regulation: sleep disorders | 34/ 105 32.4% | |
Eye deviation/absence direct gaze | 44/ 105 41.9% | Speech not acquired before 3 years | 31/ 105 29.5% | Abnormal sensory interests | 13/ 105 12.4% | Hypotonia in the first 3 years of age | 9/ 105 8.6% | |||
Joint attention (impairment) | 10/ 105 9.5% | Other language abnormalities | 20/ 105 19.0% | Psychomotor agitation onset in months (average) | 19.9 | Tonic dialogue disorder | 8/ 105 7.6% | |||
Absence of response to name | 20/ 105 19.0% | Babbling onset months (average) | 9.8 (62 patients) | Stereotypies onset in months (average) | 24.0 | |||||
Reactivity and social orienting (impairment) | 34/ 105 32.4% | First word months (average) | 20.0 (80 patients) | Hypoactivity onset in months (average) | ≤ 24 | |||||
Communicative gestures (impairment) | total | 36/ 105 34.3% | First phrase months (average) | 34.1 (25 patients) | ||||||
pointing | 32/ 105 30.5% | |||||||||
imitation | 7/ 105 6.7% | |||||||||
Age at onset in months of social interaction and relationship category of early signs (average) | 19.7 | |||||||||