Children With Autism - A Developmental Perspective

Informationen zum Autor Marian Sigman is Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry at the University of California, Los Angeles. Lisa Capps was Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of California, Berkeley. Klappentext Attempting to make sense of the many features of autism at every level of intellectual functioning across the life span, psychology experts Marian Sigman and Lisa Capps weave together clinical vignettes, research findings, methodological considerations, and historical accounts. The result is a compelling, comprehensive view of the disorder, as true to human experience as it is to scientific observation. Zusammenfassung As they make sense of the features of autism at every level of intellectual functioning across the life span! the authors weave together clinical vignettes! research! methodological considerations! and historical accounts. The result is a compelling! comprehensive view of the disorder! true to human experience and scientific observation alike. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. What is Autism? 2. Physiological Regulation! Perception! and Cognition in the Early Years 3. Development of Social and Emotional Understanding 4. Language Acquisition and Use 5. Middle Childhood 6. Adolescence 7. Stability of Individual Differences and Prediction over Time 8. In Search of Core Deficits and Causes of Autism 9. Interventions Notes References Index

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Capps, Marian Sigman, Marian Capps Sigman, Marian D Capps Sigman, Marian D. Sigman, Marian D. Capps Sigman
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.05.1997
• EAN: 9780674053137
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05313-7
• No. of pages: 278
• Series: Developing Child (Paperback); Developing Child
• Subjects: Guides > Self-help, everyday life > Family; Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Psychology: general, reference works