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Autism

A Reappraisal of Concepts and Treatment

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  • © 1978

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Editors:
  1. Michael Rutter

    1. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, London, England

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  2. Eric Schopler

    1. Department of Psychiatry, Division of Health Affairs, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, USA

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Part of the book series: Child Behavior and Development (CBD)

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Table of contents (34 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Diagnosis and Definition

    1. Diagnosis and Definition

      • Michael Rutter
      Pages 1-25

  4. Psychological and Physiological Studies

    1. Language: The Problem Beyond Conditioning

      • Don W. Churchill
      Pages 71-84

    2. Language Disorder and Infantile Autism

      • Michael Rutter
      Pages 85-104

    3. Language: What’s Wrong and Why

      • Paula Menyuk
      Pages 105-116

    4. Neurophysiologic Studies

      • Edward M. Ornitz
      Pages 117-139

    5. Images and Language

      • Beate Hermelin
      Pages 141-154

    6. Research Methodology: What Are the “Correct Controls”?

      • William Yule
      Pages 155-162

  5. Biological Investigations

    1. Biochemical and Hematologic Studies: A Critical Review

      • Edward R. Ritvo, Karen Rabin, Arthur Yuwiler, B. J. Freeman, Edward Geller
      Pages 163-183

    2. A Report on the Autistic Syndromes

      • Mary Coleman
      Pages 185-199

    3. Biochemical Strategies and Concepts

      • R. Rodnight
      Pages 201-205

    4. A Neuropsychologic Interpretation of Infantile Autism

      • G. Robert DeLong
      Pages 207-218

    5. A Twin Study of Individuals with Infantile Autism

      • Susan Folstein, Michael Rutter
      Pages 219-241

    6. Biological Homogeneity or Heterogeneity?

      • Edward M. Ornitz
      Pages 243-250

  6. Family Characteristics

    1. Personality Characteristics of Parents

      • Wm. George McAdoo, Marian K. DeMyer
      Pages 251-267

    2. Family Factors

      • Dennis P. Cantwell, Lorian Baker, Michael Rutter
      Pages 269-296

    3. Limits of Methodological Differences in Family Studies

      • Eric Schopler
      Pages 297-301
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About this book

This volume aims to provide the reader with an up-to-date account of knowledge, research, education, and clinical practice in the field of au­ tism, from an international perspective. The emphasis throughout is on the growing points of knowledge and on the new developments in prac­ tice. We have tried to keep a balance between the need for rigorous research and systematic evaluation and the importance of expressing new ideas and concepts so that they may influence thinking at a stage when questions are being formulated and fresh approaches to treatment are being developed. The book had its origins in the 1976 International Symposium on Autism held in St. Gallen, Switzerland but it is not in any sense a proceed­ ings of that meeting. Most papers have been extensively rewritten to provide a fuller coverage of the topic and also to take account of the issues raised at the meeting. Discussion dialogues have been revised and re­ structured to stand as self-contained chapters. Many significant contribu­ tions to the conference have not been induded in order to maintain the balance of a definitive review; however a few extra chapters have been added to fill crucial gaps 0 We hope the result is a vivid picture ofthe current state of the art. As editors we have been most impressed by the advances since the 1970 international conference in London.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, London, England

    Michael Rutter

  • Department of Psychiatry, Division of Health Affairs, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, USA

    Eric Schopler

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Autism

  • Book Subtitle: A Reappraisal of Concepts and Treatment

  • Editors: Michael Rutter, Eric Schopler

  • Series Title: Child Behavior and Development

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0787-7

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1978

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-0789-1Published: 19 February 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-0787-7Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 540

  • Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary

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