Babies with fragile X syndrome spend more time looking at a toy before switching their attention elsewhere than do healthy controls, according to a study published 1 July in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders.What's more, babies who take the most time to disengage tend to develop more severe features of autism, the study found. This suggests that testing for visual attention could be useful for predicting which babies with fragile X will later develop autism.Read more at...SFARI, August 2011.