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Social Behavioral and Cognitive Characteristics: An Epidemiological Approach

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Autism

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Kanner, who observed and then named the syndrome of early childhood autism (Kanner, 1943; Kanner & Eisenberg, 1955) believed that the two principal diagnostic criteria (in his view the source of the other clinical manifestations) are extreme self-isolation and an obsessive insistence on sameness. The latter is manifested by resistance to change in aspects of the environment and the daily routine, and by the child’s own stereotyped activities, varying from simple repetitive movements to very elaborate but equally repetitive rituals.

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  1. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, London, England

    Michael Rutter

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Division of Health Affairs, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

    Eric Schopler

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Wing, L. (1978). Social Behavioral and Cognitive Characteristics: An Epidemiological Approach. In: Rutter, M., Schopler, E. (eds) Autism. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0787-7_2

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