{"title":"Peripheral auditory defect in autistic children.","authors":"A G Gordon","doi":"10.1007/BF01537878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01537878","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15139,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autism and childhood schizophrenia","volume":"8 2","pages":"257-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF01537878","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11871348","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The hostage parent.","authors":"R C Sullivan","doi":"10.1007/BF01537874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01537874","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15139,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autism and childhood schizophrenia","volume":"8 2","pages":"233-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF01537874","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11871466","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Previous research suggests that verbal deficits among psychotic children may be paralleled by deficits in nonverbal pantomime. However, certain questions such as the level of pantomime exhibited by psychotic children, its susceptibility to modification, and its relation to other symbolic functions have not been systematically examined. To investigate these issues, 24 psychotic children were required to represent absent objects (e.g., toothbrush) via pantomime after receiving verbal instructions or instructions accompanied by a model demonstrating the pantomime. Also, measures of receptive and expressive speech, human figure drawings, and pretend play were obtained. The findings indicated very few complete failures in pantomime; higher pantomime performance when a model was provided although even in this condition most responses consisted of low-level substitutions of a body part in place of the absent object; and significant relationships between pantomime and measures of receptive vocabulary, echolalia, drawing, and play. The relationship of the findings to symbolic functioning in normal children and their relevance to understanding symbolic deficits in psychotic children are discussed.
{"title":"Pantomimic representation in psychotic children.","authors":"F Curcio, E A Piserchia","doi":"10.1007/BF01537867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01537867","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Previous research suggests that verbal deficits among psychotic children may be paralleled by deficits in nonverbal pantomime. However, certain questions such as the level of pantomime exhibited by psychotic children, its susceptibility to modification, and its relation to other symbolic functions have not been systematically examined. To investigate these issues, 24 psychotic children were required to represent absent objects (e.g., toothbrush) via pantomime after receiving verbal instructions or instructions accompanied by a model demonstrating the pantomime. Also, measures of receptive and expressive speech, human figure drawings, and pretend play were obtained. The findings indicated very few complete failures in pantomime; higher pantomime performance when a model was provided although even in this condition most responses consisted of low-level substitutions of a body part in place of the absent object; and significant relationships between pantomime and measures of receptive vocabulary, echolalia, drawing, and play. The relationship of the findings to symbolic functioning in normal children and their relevance to understanding symbolic deficits in psychotic children are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":15139,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autism and childhood schizophrenia","volume":"8 2","pages":"181-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF01537867","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11299868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Diagnosis and definition of childhood autism.","authors":"M Rutter","doi":"10.1007/BF01537863","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01537863","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15139,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autism and childhood schizophrenia","volume":"8 2","pages":"139-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF01537863","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11871464","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This case study presents long-term follow-up data on Clarence, one of Kanner's original cases of infantile autism. Clarence's attempts to establish a heterosexual relationship and his plans for marriage are described. His success is attributed in part to therapeutic intervention, which was directed at promoting affective responsiveness in the patient. The case of Clarence is seen as lending support to the thesis of DesLauriers and Carlson (1969), who maintain that the core problem in infantile autism is a disturbance of affective contact.
{"title":"The cognitive--affective dilemma in early infantile autism: the case of Clarence.","authors":"A M DesLauriers","doi":"10.1007/BF01537871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01537871","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This case study presents long-term follow-up data on Clarence, one of Kanner's original cases of infantile autism. Clarence's attempts to establish a heterosexual relationship and his plans for marriage are described. His success is attributed in part to therapeutic intervention, which was directed at promoting affective responsiveness in the patient. The case of Clarence is seen as lending support to the thesis of DesLauriers and Carlson (1969), who maintain that the core problem in infantile autism is a disturbance of affective contact.</p>","PeriodicalId":15139,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autism and childhood schizophrenia","volume":"8 2","pages":"219-32"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF01537871","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11871465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The following case study reports the differential development of autistic symptoms over a 9-year period in a pair of fraternal twins. Neither of the twins developed normally. Evaluations revealed that although the older (male) twin showed some early signs of pathology and suffered from frequent illnesses, he ultimately has developed more normally than his sister, who likely sustained brain damage as a result of perinatal anoxia. Significant improvements has occurred in both cases. Diagnostic, etiological, and treatment implications are discussed.
{"title":"Differential development of autistic symptoms in a pair of fraternal twins.","authors":"J L Sloan","doi":"10.1007/BF01537868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01537868","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The following case study reports the differential development of autistic symptoms over a 9-year period in a pair of fraternal twins. Neither of the twins developed normally. Evaluations revealed that although the older (male) twin showed some early signs of pathology and suffered from frequent illnesses, he ultimately has developed more normally than his sister, who likely sustained brain damage as a result of perinatal anoxia. Significant improvements has occurred in both cases. Diagnostic, etiological, and treatment implications are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":15139,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autism and childhood schizophrenia","volume":"8 2","pages":"191-202"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF01537868","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11770580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The hostage parent: a life-style or a challenge?","authors":"C V Torisky","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15139,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autism and childhood schizophrenia","volume":"8 2","pages":"234-40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11871467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J Sverd, S S Kupietz, B G Winsberg, M J Hurwic, L Becker
Behavioral effects of L-5-Hydroxytrophan (L-5-HTP), administered in combination with carbidopa, were evaluated in three autistic children using direct behavioral observation and parent ratings. Children were assessed under each of four experimental conditions: Baseline, Placebo I, L-5-HTP plus carbidopa, and Placebo II. During the 20-week study two children showed behavioral change that appeared to be unrelated to drug treatment. The findings did not support the hypothesis that a functional deficit in brain 5-HT underlies the autistic syndrome.
{"title":"Effects of L-5-hydroxytryptophan in autistic children.","authors":"J Sverd, S S Kupietz, B G Winsberg, M J Hurwic, L Becker","doi":"10.1007/BF01537866","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01537866","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Behavioral effects of L-5-Hydroxytrophan (L-5-HTP), administered in combination with carbidopa, were evaluated in three autistic children using direct behavioral observation and parent ratings. Children were assessed under each of four experimental conditions: Baseline, Placebo I, L-5-HTP plus carbidopa, and Placebo II. During the 20-week study two children showed behavioral change that appeared to be unrelated to drug treatment. The findings did not support the hypothesis that a functional deficit in brain 5-HT underlies the autistic syndrome.</p>","PeriodicalId":15139,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autism and childhood schizophrenia","volume":"8 2","pages":"171-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF01537866","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11521672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The hostage parent: A life-style or a challenge?","authors":"C. Torisky","doi":"10.1007/BF01537875","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01537875","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15139,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autism and childhood schizophrenia","volume":"137 1","pages":"234-240"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82260368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Plasma zinc, copper, and amino acid levels have been measured in a group of autistic children. All three variables were found to be normal. These findings are in disagreement with the previously reported results of some other workers but if confirmed would indicate that autism cannot simply be attributed to a disorder of zinc metabolism.
{"title":"Plasma zinc, copper, and amino acid levels in the blood of autistic children.","authors":"M J Jackson, P J Garrod","doi":"10.1007/BF01537869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01537869","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Plasma zinc, copper, and amino acid levels have been measured in a group of autistic children. All three variables were found to be normal. These findings are in disagreement with the previously reported results of some other workers but if confirmed would indicate that autism cannot simply be attributed to a disorder of zinc metabolism.</p>","PeriodicalId":15139,"journal":{"name":"Journal of autism and childhood schizophrenia","volume":"8 2","pages":"203-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1978-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF01537869","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"11871463","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}