In the spring of 2003, when he was 4 months old, Cara Coller's son wouldn't look her in the eye. At 9 months of age, he still wasn't responding to his name. At 18 months, he began biting and banging his head. Six months later, when he was diagnosed with autism, Coller immediately signed up for research studies at the Center for Autism & Related Disabilities at the University of Miami.Scientists there told Coller that they also study the siblings of children with autism. "They told me if I ever chose to have more kids, that they'd keep an eye on them for me," she recalls. "The earlier you notice the signs, the sooner you can start treating them with therapy."When Coller got pregnant with her daughter in 2006, she enrolled in a sibling study. Through her pregnancy, the researchers tracked her health, diet and how the pregnancy differed from her first.Read more at...SFARI, April 2008.