Autism and developmental receptive language disorder - A comparative follow-up in early adult life. I: Cognitive and language outcomes

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 547-559

  Mawhood, Lynn ^a   Howlin, Patricia ^a   Rutter, Michael ^b  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Adulthood; Autistic disorder; Follow up studies; Intelligence; Language; Language disorder; Social behaviour

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; READING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS; LANGUAGE TESTS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIAL ADJUSTMENT;

EID: 0033942494     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S002196309900579X     Document Type: Article

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