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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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