title: Autism and family home movies: preliminary findings.
abstract: Preliminary analyses of 12 home movies taken by parents before the recognition of autistic disorders of their own child confirm the major value of this method for describing early signs: anomalies of eye contact, deficient variability of emotional expression, defect of attention and initiation of communication, motor abnormalities, etc. The possibilities of subsequently using these documents in a research context are described: behavior assignment with a rating scale, comparative analysis with movies of normal children, blind examination, and scoring by investigators not informed of the diagnosis.
authors.affiliation: Département de Psychopathologie de l'enfant et de Neurophysiologie du Développement, C.H.R. Bretonneau, Tours, France.
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Adrien
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Faure
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Perrot
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Hameury
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Garreau
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Barthelemy
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sauvage
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living / Q000523:psychology; D001143:Arousal; D001288:Attention; D001321:Autistic Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D002657:Child Development; D002659:Child Development Disorders, Pervasive / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D012931:Social Environment; D014741:Video Recording