Children with Autism: A Developmental Perspective

by Lisa Capps and Marian Sigman

Book Overview

A window on the insular world of autism, this book offers a rare close look at the mysterious condition that afflicts approximately 350,000 Americans and affects millions more. As they make sense of the many features of autism at every level of intellectual functioning across the life span, Marian Sigman and Lisa Capps weave together clinical vignettes, research findings, methodological considerations, and historical accounts. The result is a compelling,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674053133
• ISBN13: 9780674053137
• Release Date: May 1997
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

Awesome! Very indepth -- an excellent source of information.

This book give a very thurough, indepth description of autism. It is relatively unbiased, and very accurate in both science and life. The development perspective give an excellent over view of autistic development and the nature of this very development disorder. It give information relavent to all levels of functioning and all stages of life, and does a great job a present autism specific characteristic, as well as comorbid features of mental retardation and ADD. It is especially good in dealing with higher-fuctioning autism -- something often ignored in favor of more negative views. I would strongly recommend this book as a new-comers first source of information about autism.