level of eye contact with infant?

iVillage Member
Registered: 06-30-2003
level of eye contact with infant?
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Mon, 09-19-2005 - 7:11pm

My 3 1/2 year old is ASD, now I have a new baby in the house and am wondering how soon I can start looking for signs. How well should my baby be making eye contact at 5 weeks? Those with more than one ASD child, were the symptoms obvious to you and when did you first notice them with your second child?

Thanks,
Abbey

iVillage Member
Registered: 03-31-2003
Mon, 09-19-2005 - 7:27pm

My daughter did not start making eye contact until 3-ish months. At 5 weeks their eye sight is probably not developed well enough to start making eye contact really.

Interestingly, my ASD son did make eye contact until about 14 months, when he started to regress.

HTH

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Registered: 03-30-2003
Tue, 09-20-2005 - 8:12am
My DS never made eye contact. I knew something was wrong at about 7-8 weeks. He is going to be one Oct. 1 so there is not an official diagnosis on him, but he has many markers.