Sinha plans to use the Merck fellowship for his work on characterizing and improving face processing skills in children with autism and those who have suffered extended periods of visual deprivation. Autism is a complex developmental disability that typically appears during the first three years of life. The result of a neurological disorder, autism is four times more prevalent in boys than girls and knows no racial, ethnic or social boundaries.
As many as 1. That number is growing at a rate of percent per year. Autistic children typically have trouble maintaining eye contact and reading social cues such as facial expression, body posture and gestures. Sinha is exploring whether autistic children have impaired face perception skills and is developing a methodology called VisTA Visual Training and Assessment to help them refine those skills.
Through collaborations with Children's Hospital in Boston and the OpenDoor Center for Autistic Children in New Delhi, India, the first specialized school for children with autism in South Asia, Sinha plans to administer tests to several autistic individuals over the coming two years.
The tests will simultaneously determine whether the children have trouble seeing faces and help them bring disparate visual elements together into a comprehensible whole. It is conceivable that an inability to effectively process facial signals would manifest itself as an impairment in social skills.
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