Signs and Symptoms
- Avoids or does not maintain eye contact
- Does not respond to name.
- Does not orient to the vocal or visual stimuli in the environment
- Does not recognize or show facial expressions like happy, sad, angry, and surprised by 9 months of age
- Does not take part in early social games like chase/run by 12 months of age
- Does not respond to or initiate greeting with others.
- Does not express interest in the events in the environment.
- Does not initiate or join play with other children.
- Does not engage in Functional Pretend Play.
- Does not imitate simple or complex actions of others in the environment.
- Engage in repetitive speech (i.e., repeating words/ phrases repeatedly)
- Likes to line up toys, or other objects.
- Lacks social flexibility and get upset with minor changes in routine or the order of things in the environment.
- Engage in behaviors like flapping hands, rocking back and forth, spinning in circles, biting self or others, spitting, mouthing non – edible items, and lining up objects in an order.