Infancy and autism: progress, prospects, and challenges

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 164, Issue , 2007, Pages 355-383

  Elsabbagh, Mayada ^a   Johnson, Mark H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

autism; autism spectrum disorder; core deficits; development; executive function; infancy; infant siblings; perception; social orienting

Indexed keywords

ATTENTION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; DISEASE COURSE; FACE; GAZE; HIGH RISK INFANT; HUMAN; INFANCY; INFANTILE AUTISM; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEASUREMENT; MOTIVATION; ORIENTATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCEPTION; PHENOTYPE; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOMOTOR ACTIVITY; RESEARCH; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SENSATION; SIBLING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SYMPTOM; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AUTISTIC DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; HUMANS; INFANT; MENTAL PROCESSES; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PERCEPTION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34848872747     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(07)64020-5     Document Type: Review

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