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Preschool Children With Inadequate Communication: Developmental Language Disorder, Autism, Low IQ
edited by Isabelle Rapin, 299 pp, $69.95, ISBN 1-898683-07-7, London, England, Mac Keith Press, 1996.
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med. 1998;152:1250.
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This monograph, from the Clinics in Developmental Medicine series, reports data from a multidisciplinary research project on the Autism and Language Disorders Nosology Project supported by grants from the National Institute of Neurologic Disorders and Stroke. The goal of the project group was to develop a more quantitatively and clinically sophisticated classification system for preschool and young school-aged children with developmental disorders of communication skills. These disorders are among the most common problems seen by disability teams in the developed world.
The focus of the book is on a comparison among preschool children divided into 3 clinical groups: developmental language disorder, autistic disorder, and a nonautistic low IQ group. The introduction by Drs Morris and Rapin outlines thegoals of the project, tells how data were collected and validated, and describes the implications of the findings for clinical diagnosis and intervention. Chapters 2 and 3 discuss the classification of developmental language . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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