One previous study suggests that the effects of face inversion on gaze processing are atypical in children with ASD. In this study, 9- to 15-year-old children with and without ASD viewed arrays of five or nine faces and judged whether a face with a particular direction of gaze (direct, averted left or averted right) was present in the array. When faces were presented in an upright orientation, typically developing children showed more efficient visual search (i.e., a smaller difference in response time between smaller and larger arrays) for detection of direct gaze than for detection of averted gaze. This effect was not present for inverted faces. In contrast, children with ASD showed more efficient search for direct gaze in both orientations. This result suggests that the perceptual mechanism underlying sensitivity to eye contact may not be specialized for upright faces in ASD.