Eye-Tracking: The Future of Diagnostics, Prognostics, and Treatment Planning in Autism

Karen Pierce, Ph.D., explores using eye tracking to diagnose and treat autism. Her work identifies patterns in children's attention, aiming to streamline diagnosis, predict symptom severity, and tailor treatments. The focus is on early intervention by making social stimuli engaging for kids with varied attention patterns. Recorded on 11/03/2023. [12/2023] [Show ID: 39170]
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[@-izziestudios-1655]

God love your heart ❤ you are doing good things here my grandson is autistic he is an amazing young man 👨 ❤ and beyond amazing artist. God bless you walking and praying in the mighty name of CHRIST JESUS AMEN blessings 🙏 are coming your way. Much love sister resa

[@ForestFairy]

So around the end of the lecture ABA was mentioned and I want to say that people should not send their children to ABA, this "therapy" causes a very high rate of trauma for autistic children and increases the likelihood of PTSD or cPTSD by 3 times if I remember correctly. Another result of that could be a child that wouldn't respond to strangers touching them in the future so it's best to avoid all together. Other forms of therapy like CBT are shown to be healthy,safe, and effective for nuerodivergents and nuerotypicals alike.

[@Lisa-uz2gj]

Thank you, I'm not going to listen to the rest. The 85 IQ was also a tip. Those tests are biased.

[@paulveenvliet9130]

Like another commenter, I too am shocked at the mentioning of ABA because I heard far too many negative experiences. Apart from that, as a late-diagnosed autistic adult, looking back at my youth, I do not believe that I needed any therapy, nor that I would have benefitted if it. It would, however, have made a huge difference if I would have been protected from bullying, because that left severe lasting trauma. As a child, I was send to self-defence classes, but being autistic, I didn't have the mindset to use those skills against bullies and I was effectively a defenceless victim. - Would eye tracking be a predictor for the kind of special interests that a child might develop? Here, just two sets are used (people versus geometrical shapes or traffic), but there are so many things one can focus on. Would a special interest already be noticeable at 12 months of age with the right variety of imagery?

[@athenacontreras]

What about babies who prefer to look at a light rather than people? But making lots of hand movements, like when singing the itsy bitsy spider, that is how to gain their interest?