Bebês com risco de autismo: o não-olhar do médico

Babies in risk of autism: the non-looking of a doctor. In this study, it is approached the possibility of risk detection and early autism intervention by medical view. Thus, it's showed the results of a research made with seven pediatrician and three neuro-pediatricians from a central city in Rio Grande do Sul, in 2009, using the content analysis based on Bardin (1997) and related to psychoanalyses. The results pointed that the diagnosis of autism are made late, also the professionals involved are not able to detected the risk signs and this doesn't make early intervention possible. Therefore, it's necessary to work with these professionals to alert them about the risk signs of autism.