Trends in Autism ResearchNova Publishers, 2004 - 236 páginas This new book brings together the latest research in the battle against autism. According to numerous news reports, the increase in special needs children has reached epidemic proportions in the United States. Autism is a complex developmental disability that typically appears during the first three years of life. The result of a neurological disorder that affects the functioning of the brain, autism and its associated behaviors have been estimated to occur in as many as 2 to 6 in 1,000 individuals. Autism is four times more prevalent in boys than girls and knows no racial, ethnic, or social boundaries. Autism is a spectrum disorder. The symptoms and characteristics of autism can present themselves in a wide variety of combinations, from mild to severe. Although autism is defined by a certain set of behaviors, children and adults can exhibit any combination of the behaviors in any degree of severity. People with autism process and respond to information in unique ways. In some cases, aggressive and/or self-injurious behavior may be present. |
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The Relationship between Autism and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder | 43 |
Its Our Little Bit of Closeness The Experience of Touch Among Parents of Children with Autism Attending a Training and Support Programme | 53 |
Theory of Mind in Developmental Pathologies Theoretic and Methodological Issues | 89 |
Cognitive Affective Disorder Associated with Rhombencephalosynapsys | 109 |
Screening and Detection of ASD The State of the Science in Research and Practice | 133 |
Secretin Myth versus Fact | 153 |
Iron Deficiency in Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder | 165 |
GammaAminobutyric Acid GABA and Methylmalonic Acid The Connection with Infantile Autism | 177 |
The Serotonin Transporter is Increased in Platelets of Autistic Children | 187 |
Abnormal Sulfation Chemistry in Autism | 197 |
How Does the Law Assist People with Autism? | 221 |
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Página vii - Autism is a complex developmental disability that typically appears during the first three years of life. The result of a neurological disorder that affects the functioning of the brain, autism and its associated behaviors have been estimated to occur in as many as 1 in 500 individuals.
Página 7 - Schizophrenia in which the clinical picture is dominated by at least two of the following: ( 1 ) motoric immobility as evidenced by catalepsy ( including waxy flexibility) or stupor (2) excessive motor activity (that is apparently purposeless and not influenced by external stimuli...
Página 2 - There is from the start an extreme autistic aloneness that, whenever possible, disregards, ignores, shuts out anything that comes to the child from the outside.
Página 2 - pathognomonic," fundamental disorder is the children's inability to relate themselves in the ordinary way to people and situations from the beginning of life.
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Página 2 - The common denominator in all these patients is a disability to relate themselves in the ordinary way to people and situations from the beginning of life. Their parents referred to them as always having been "self-sufficient," "like in a shell," "happiest when left alone," "acting as if people weren't there," "giving the impression of silent wisdom.