{"h1":"Eye-Contact AbilityScore 100–200: Your Next Steps","faq":[{"a":"No. A single score is a screen, not a diagnosis, and limited eye-contact can have many gentle, supportable reasons. It simply shows this social skill is still emerging. Only a qualified clinician at a Pinnacle Blooms Network centre can confirm the full picture through a structured, in-person assessment.","q":"Does a 100–200 Eye-Contact AbilityScore mean my child has autism?"},{"a":"Get to your child's eye level, follow their interests, use playful pauses and wait for them to look, then respond warmly with a smile or favourite reaction. Sing face-to-face, play peek-a-boo and turn-taking games. Always reward connection — never force eye-contact, which can make a child more reluctant.","q":"What can I do at home to build eye-contact?"},{"a":"Early is best. Booking a clinician-led review soon means support, if needed, can begin while these social skills are most responsive. Even if everything is on track, the review gives you reassurance and clear guidance.","q":"How soon should we act on this score?"}],"lang":"en","slug":"my-child-s-eye-contact-abilityscore-is-100-200-what-are-the-next-steps","title":"Eye-Contact AbilityScore 100–200 — What Next?","entity":{"key":"eye-contact-toddler","kind":"ability","name":"Eye-Contact","slug":null},"lenses":[{"kind":"stakeholder","label":"Parent","value":"parent"},{"kind":"domain","label":"Social","value":"social"},{"kind":"intent","label":"Support","value":"support"},{"kind":"lifecycle","label":"Measure","value":"measure"},{"kind":"route","label":"Book-Assessment","value":"book-assessment"},{"kind":"score_band","label":"As 100 200","value":"as_100_200"},{"kind":"empowerment","label":"Early Clarity","value":"early_clarity"}],"parent":{"key":"abilities","label":"Abilities"},"related":[{"lang":"en","slug":"my-child-s-eye-contact-abilityscore-is-500-600-what-are-the-next-steps","title":"Eye-Contact AbilityScore 500–600 — What Are the Next Steps?"},{"lang":"en","slug":"my-child-s-eye-contact-abilityscore-is-200-300-what-are-the-next-steps","title":"Eye-Contact AbilityScore 200–300 — What Are the Next Steps?"},{"lang":"en","slug":"my-child-s-eye-contact-abilityscore-is-0-100-what-are-the-next-steps","title":"Eye-Contact AbilityScore® — next steps for your child"},{"lang":"en","slug":"my-child-s-eye-contact-abilityscore-is-300-400-what-are-the-next-steps","title":"Eye-Contact AbilityScore 300–400 — Next Steps"},{"lang":"en","slug":"my-child-s-eye-contact-abilityscore-is-600-700-what-are-the-next-steps","title":"Eye-Contact AbilityScore 600–700 — Next Steps"},{"lang":"en","slug":"my-child-s-eye-contact-abilityscore-is-400-500-what-are-the-next-steps","title":"Eye-Contact AbilityScore 400–500 — Next Steps for Your Child"}],"summary":"An Eye-Contact AbilityScore in the 100–200 band is an emerging range, suggesting your child is still building this early social-connection skill with strong room to grow through play-based support. The key next step is a clinician-led review at a Pinnacle Blooms Network centre to confirm the picture and shape a tailored plan. AbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional.","answer_md":"*A number is never the whole child — it's a starting point that helps us know exactly where to begin.*\n\n## In short\nAn Eye-Contact AbilityScore® in the **100–200 band** is an *emerging* range — it tells us your child is building this social-connection skill, with room to grow with the right support. This is good news: it gives a clear, measurable place to start, and eye-contact responds beautifully to play-based, child-led therapy. The most important next step is a clinician-led review at a Pinnacle Blooms Network centre to confirm the picture and shape a plan around *your* child.\n\n## What this band means and your next steps\nEye-contact is one of the earliest building blocks of social communication — it's how babies and young children share attention, read faces and connect emotionally. A score in this band simply suggests your child is still developing comfortable, consistent eye-contact, which is very common and very supportable.\n\nYour practical next steps:\n- **Confirm the picture with a clinician.** An app score is a screen, not a diagnosis. A qualified clinician will observe your child in play and confirm where support is best focused.\n- **Build connection through everyday play.** Get down to your child's eye level, follow their interests, pause and wait for them to look, and reward every glance with a warm smile or response — not pressure.\n- **Look at the whole picture.** Eye-contact often grows alongside joint attention, gesture, babble and early words, so support usually nurtures several social skills together.\n- **Start support early.** The earlier we begin gentle, playful work, the more naturally these social bridges form.\n\n## When to seek a check\nBook a developmental check soon if, alongside limited eye-contact, you notice your child rarely responds to their name, doesn't point or share things they enjoy, shows little back-and-forth babble or gesture, or seems to prefer playing alone. These aren't causes for alarm — they're simply useful signals that a friendly professional review will help.\n\n## The Pinnacle way\nAbilityScore® is part of Pinnacle’s developmental assessment. Diagnosis, where needed, requires an appropriately qualified healthcare professional — never from an app or online band alone. With 25 million+ therapy sessions and 4.95 lakh+ families supported across 70+ centres, our team turns a single number into a warm, precise plan for your child. Learn how the [AbilityScore® is calculated](/ask/what-is-the-abilityscore-and-how-is-it-calculated), explore how [speech and social-communication therapy](https://www.pinnacleblooms.org/top-speech-therapy-center-india-proven-improvement-rate) builds connection, or start [here at Pinnacle](/).\n\n## Trusted sources\nAmerican Academy of Pediatrics (HealthyChildren.org) guidance on early social communication and developmental monitoring; American Speech-Language-Hearing Association guidance on social communication; WHO Nurturing Care Framework on responsive, play-based early support.\n\n**Next step —** Ready to turn this score into a clear plan? [Book a clinician-led assessment at a Pinnacle Blooms Network centre](https://www.pinnacleblooms.org/top-speech-therapy-center-india-proven-improvement-rate).","canonical":"https://pinnacleblooms.org/ask/my-child-s-eye-contact-abilityscore-is-100-200-what-are-the-next-steps","editorial":{"reviewed_at":"2026-06-11T20:12:18.613642+00:00","reviewed_by":null,"developed_by":"SETU Consortium · Pinnacle Blooms Network"},"alternates":[{"href":"https://pinnacleblooms.org/ask/my-child-s-eye-contact-abilityscore-is-100-200-what-are-the-next-steps","lang":"en","indexable":true}],"dimensions":[{"key":"abilities","label":"Abilities"}],"meta_title":"Eye-Contact AbilityScore 100–200: Next Steps","meta_robots":"index, follow, max-image-preview:large","everyday_tip":"Get down to your child's eye level during play, follow what interests them, pause and wait for a glance, then reward every look with a warm smile or happy response — connection, never 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