The Department of Women and Child Development and Social Welfare under the West Bengal Government started an initiative to determine the real status of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) in children in the state.
A recent study has created a novel eye-tracking technique to measure toddlers' attention to motherese. Using these metrics, the researchers were able to identify a subset of children with ASD whose low levels of attention to motherese were also related to poorer social and language abilities