Language and behavior in autistic disordered children.

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The autistic disorder is defined today as follows : 1) all symptoms manifest before 36 months of age, 2) social relationships with other peers or adults are qualitatively impaired, 3) verbal and nonverbal communication, and imaginative activity are qualitatively impaired, and 4) repertoires of activities and interests are markedly restricted. The author discussed about etiological aspect of the autistic disorder. A brain organic impairment is speculated as the cause of this disorder, but the conclusive elucidation is yet to be done. Even if a brain impairment is existing in the brain of the autistic disordered children, the relationship between the brain impairment and the resulting behavioral symptoms should not be straightforward.<BR>In the next, various kind of behavioral symptoms of the autistic disorder are described, and the core structure of the symptoms is elusidated, paying special attention to the language problems.<BR>Further, one adult case of the autistic disorder who showed very difficult social adjustment, contrasting rather high intellectual development is reported to illustrate how the autistic disordered lives.<BR>Finally, a guideline for the therapy of the autistic disordered child is discussed, in which the establishment of attachment relationship in early infancy between the infant and the mother was specifically stressed.
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