Epilogue: The Interpersonal World of the Autistic Infant, Part 2: Modes of Treatment

, categorization, comparison, the joys of con-noisseurship, and the deep pride of expertise. They may be constructing informational platforms that, uniquely among the unreliable perceptions that emerge from their sensorimotor systems, give them a steady place from which to begin bootstrapping their way across a larger terrain. If we are in a hurry to judge that safe platform as a meaningless splinter skill, if we discourage it rather than engage our own imaginations with it, we will never know where it might have led.