Free Fact Sheets

Questions to Ask when you Suspect Autism, Elizabeth Newson
A checklist of the characteristics typical of a child with autism, in the first, second and third years of life. This fact sheet provides the parent, doctor or health visitor with questions, and shows what answers might suggest autistic development.

Defining Criteria for Autism and their Implications for Education, Treatment and Handling, Elizabeth Newson
This fact sheet simply and systematically outlines the major impairments and symptoms of autism and considers the implications of each of these.

Defining Criteria for Pathological Demand Avoidance Syndrome, and a Comparison with Autism, Elizabeth Newson
Gives practical examples of how the criteria might be shown in different individual children.

The ‘Family’ of Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Elizabeth Newson, 1999
A diagrammatic representation of the pervasive developmental coding disorders (which include autism, Asperger syndrome and PDA). This provides a helpful way of understanding the possible inter-connections and overlap of impairments in a particular child, and is a guide to implications for differential diagnosis.



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