Groundbreaking Offord Centre research on high-risk baby siblings of children diagnosed with autism is featured in the current issue of Newsweek magazine.

The cover story on 'Babies and Autism' describes how researchers in Canada and the U.S. are working to detect autism in babies as young as six months. It quotes developmental pediatrician Lonnie Zwaigenbaum, a member of the Offord Centre’s autism team and a lead investigator for the Canadian study, which was the first – and is still the largest – in the world, involving some 300 Canadian families.

Dr. Zwaigenbaum now leads a consortium of researchers studying baby siblings in 14 locations across the United States and Canada. The project is funded by the National Alliance for Autism Research (NAAR) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U.S.

The Newsweek cover story describes their efforts to detect and diagnose children earlier as "some of the most exciting new work" taking place in the field of autism research.

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