{"id":212162,"date":"2025-04-23T01:27:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-23T06:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/predicting-how-an-autistic-child-will-develop-cognitively"},"modified":"2025-04-23T01:27:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T06:27:51","slug":"predicting-how-an-autistic-child-will-develop-cognitively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/04\/predicting-how-an-autistic-child-will-develop-cognitively","title":{"rendered":"Predicting how an autistic child will develop cognitively"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/predicting-how-an-autistic-child-will-develop-cognitively.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Will a child who\u2019s evaluated for autism later develop an intellectual disability? Can this be accurately predicted? Early-childhood experts in Quebec say they\u2019ve have come up with a better way to find out.<\/p>\n<p>In a study of 5,633 children drawn from three North American cohorts, clinician-researchers affiliated with Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al developed a new predictive model that combines a wide range of genetic variants with data on each stage of a young child\u2019s development.<\/p>\n<p>Their goal? To obtain reliable information as early as possible to predict the children\u2019s developmental trajectory and thus offer more proactive support to those who may need it\u2014namely, parents trying to better understand and anticipate their child\u2019s needs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will a child who\u2019s evaluated for autism later develop an intellectual disability? Can this be accurately predicted? Early-childhood experts in Quebec say they\u2019ve have come up with a better way to find out. In a study of 5,633 children drawn from three North American cohorts, clinician-researchers affiliated with Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al developed a new predictive [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}