The detection, as early as possible, of the infantile autism conditions, to a large extent, the prognostic’s quality, especially the cognitive prognostic. This early detection brings a series of extremely important clinical, theoretical and ethical questions. The infantile autism cannot be reduced to a neuro-developmental deficit, and it is necessary to conceive it, preferably, as a fruit of a progressive autistic-ating process of a multi-factorial origin. The signs that permit the detection during the second year of life are actually well defined, principally with the constitution of CHAT (check list for autistic toddlers). During the first year of life one can describe early interactive disturbances, but maybe it is necessary to detect the children that need care, without confining them inside an autistic prediction that incurs in the risk of fixating things, stopping the future from a still possible developmental opening. The issue of the study of family movies was recently retaken in a renewed and prolific manner.
Autism; early detection; autistic-ating process; prevention