Children with Autism and Asperger Syndrome
Subtitle: A Guide for Practitioners and Carers
Publisher: Wiley
Published: January 6, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780471983286
Subjects: Care; Family relationships; Specific disorders & therapies; Parents of autistic children; Medical; Psychiatry - Child & Adolescent; Asperger's syndrome; Pediatrics; Psychology & Psychiatry / Clinical Psychology; Medical / Nursing; Autism
First sentence: It was in America, in the 1940s that Leo Kanner, a child psychiatrist, first became aware of a group of children 'whose condition differs so markedly and uniquely from anything reported so far, that each case merits...a detailed consideration of its fascinating peculiarities'.