Testing Baby’s Brain As far as her friends and teachers are concerned, Ashdod is an ordinary, bright, playful 5-year-old. They might be surprised to learn that not long ago therapists were fighting to keep her from succumbing to (患严重的) autism (自闭症) - a brain disorder that afflicts one in 100 children, typically leaving them with lifelong difficulties in communicating, socializing and carrying out many basic tasks. Ashdod was lucky: when she was 10 months old, her parents became alarmed that she had little interest in looking them in the eyes, eating and moving from her back, and whisked (急忙送离) her to the Mifne Center in Rosh Pinna, Israel, a clinic that focuses on children 5 months and older who show early warning signs of autism. The results of the Mifne treatment were startling, recalls the girl’ s mother, Tikva. "Now she goes to a regular school where she is the same sort of articulate (齿伶俐的), funny, normal child as anyone else," she says. Despite a big jump in autism awareness in the past decade, parents, schools and doctors still frequently ignore warning signs in very young children. These can be subtle: a child never points at things, shows more interest in objects than people, has delayed speech and develops a fascination with spinning in place or with spinning toys. Many pediatricians dismiss these symptoms as harmless quirks (怪癖) that kids will outgrow. New research and experience in some autism clinics, however, suggests that starting treatment by age 2 is critical to mitigating (缓解) and in some cases entirely avoiding the disorder. That’s because unlike the brain of an adult or even an older child, a 12 - or 18 - month - old’s brain is, in a sense, highly reprogrammable--that is, it responds well to treatments designed to permanently change basic patterns of thought and behavior. "All the evidence we have suggests that outcomes for these children will be better with an earlier diagnosis, before they reach 18 months, if possible," says Christopher Gillberg, a child psychiatrist at Gothenburg University in Sweden. Which of the following is true about autism according to the passage
A．It is a brain disorder that makes children unable to control their actions. B．It often leaves children with lifelong difficulties for communicating, socializing and carrying out basic tasks. C．It cannot be successfully treated and will go with the children lifelong. D．It is a brain disorder that needs care from the parents to help the suffering children recover.