Prevalence and early signs of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) among 18-36 month old children in Tianjin of China

Biomedical and Environmental Sciences

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 453-461

  Huang, Jun Ping ^a   Cui, Shan Shan ^a   Han, Yu ^a   Irva, Hertz Picciotto ^b   Qi, Li Hong ^b   Zhang, Xin ^a  

^a TIANJIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism spectrum disorder Prevalence Early signs Discriminant function analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTISM; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHINA; DISCRIMINANT FUNCTION ANALYSIS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; EARLY SIGNS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER; DISCRIMINANT FUNCTION ANALYSIS; EARLY SIGNS; PREVALENCE;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHINA; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE;

EID: 84904301602     PISSN: 08953988     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3967/bes2014.008     Document Type: Article

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