Diagnosis and classification of autism and related conditions: consensus and issues -- Epidemiology of autism: overview and issues outstanding -- Childhood disintegrative disorder -- Rett's syndome: a pervasive developmental disorder -- Asperger's syndrome -- Pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified -- Syndromes of autism and atypical development -- Social development in autism -- Language and communication in autism -- Attention and autism: behavioral and electrophysiological evidence -- Cognition and emotion in children and adolescents with autism -- Autism in infancy and early childhood -- The school-age child with autism -- Adolescents and adults with autism -- Neurochemical studies of autism -- Neurological aspects of autism -- Genetic influences and autism -- Medical conditions associated with autism -- Developmentally based assessments -- Behavioral assessment of individuals with autism -- Diagnostic instruments in autism spectrum disorders -- Issues of curriculum and classroom structure -- Enhancing language and communication development: theoretical foundations -- Enhancing language and communication development: prelinguistic approaches --Enhancing language and communication development: language approaches -- Behavioral interventions -- Working with families -- Employment: options and issues for adolescents and adults with autism -- Helping children with autism enter the mainstream -- Initiating and administering programs: alternative settings -- Residential treatment for individuals with autism -- Psychopharmacology -- Routine health care -- Coping with the diagnosis of autism -- Implementation of TEACCH philosophy -- Inclusive education for students with autism: reviewing ideological, empirical, and community considerations -- The legal rights of children with disabilities to education and developmental services -- Ethical issues in research and treatment -- Classification and causal issues in autism -- Causal mechanisms of autism: unifying perspectives from an information-processing framework -- Theory of mind in autism: its relationship to executive function and central coherence -- Perspectives on language and communication in autism -- Perspectives on social impairment -- Theoretical perspectives on behavioral intervention for individuals with autism -- A life-span approach in the education and treatment of persons with autism -- Conceptualizations of autism and intervention practices: international perspectives. Australia -- Canada -- China -- France -- Germany and Austria -- Israel -- Italy -- Japan -- Korea -- Central America and South America -- The Netherlands -- Spain -- Sweden and other Nordic nations -- The United Kingdom -- Diagnosis autism: you can handle it! -- A sibling's perspective on autism -- A personal perspective on autism -- A teacher's perspective on autism
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