Is 18 months too early for the chat?

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 235-236

  Charman, Tony ^a   Baron Cohen, Simon ^b   Baird, Gillian ^c   Cox, Antony ^c   Swettenham, John ^d   Wheelwright, Sally ^b   Drew, Auriol ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTISM; CHILD BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; LETTER; MASS SCREENING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; CHILD PARENT RELATION; HOSPITALIZATION; INFANT; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; NOTE;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; HUMANS; INFANT; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0036516196     PISSN: 08908567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004583-200203000-00001     Document Type: Letter

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