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Autism Spectrum Disorders

A Special Issue of Child Neuropsychology

• Edited by Natacha Akshoomoff

• Price: $53.95 $48.56
• Binding: Hardback
• Pages: 140
• Published by: Psychology Press
• Publication Date: 2nd November 2006
• ISBN: 978-1-84169-818-2

About the Book

Children with autism spectrum disorders share a pervasive impairment in the development of reciprocal social interaction skills but vary in their verbal and nonverbal communication skills and various restricted and repetitive behaviors. This variability presents challenges for developmental and neurobiological models. Our understanding of the autism spectrum disorders is improved by studying children at various points in development, including infants, and by using a careful neuropsychological approach. This approach is emphasized here in studies that examine characteristics of infants later diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders, neuropsychological test performance of children, and developmental information obtained from detailed, standardized parent interviews. Due to the pervasive nature of the autism spectrum disorders, attention difficulties are commonly observed. Studies that address specific aspects of attention are included, with an emphasis on how attention difficulties may help to explain the early symptoms and the characteristic social deficits in these disorders. Using a range of approaches has helped us to learn more about how these disorders affect a wide range of skills throughout the course of development. It is hoped that the findings from the studies in this special issue will assist efforts aimed at improving diagnostic characterization, as well as delineating targets for behavioral and educational interventions, in children with autism spectrum disorders.

Table of Contents

Natacha Akshoomoff, Introduction: Autism Spectrum Disorders. Somer Bishop, Jennifer Richler, Catherine Lord, Association Between Restricted and Repetitive Behaviors and Nonverbal IQ in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Natacha Akshoomoff, Use of the Mullen Scales of Early Learning for the Assessment of Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders. Diane Williams, Gerald Goldstein, Nancy Minshew, Neuropsychologic Functioning in Children with Autism: Further Evidence for Disordered Complex Information-processing. Stephen Hooper, Kenneth Poon, Lee Marcus, Camille Fine, Neuropsychological Characteristics of School-Age Children with High-Functioning Autism: Performance on the NEPSY. Siobhan Colgan, Elizabeth Lanter, Cara McComish, Elizabeth Crais, Grace Baranek, Analysis of Social Interaction Gestures in Infants With Autism. Deborah Pearson, Katherine Loveland, David Lachar, David Lane, Stacy Reddoch, Rosleen Mansour, Lynne Cleveland, A Comparison of Behavioral and Emotional Functioning in Children and Adolescents with Autistic Disorder and PDD-NOS. Blythe Corbett, Laura Constantine, Autism and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Assessing Attention and Response Control with the Integrated Visual and Auditory Continuous Performance Test. Ruth Raymaekers, Jaap van der Meere, Herbert Roeyers, Response Inhibition and Immediate Arousal in Children with High-Functioning Autism. Peggy Renner, Laura Klinger, Mark Klinger, Exogenous and Endogenous Attention Orienting in Autism Spectrum Disorders.

About the Author(s)

Natacha Akshoomoff, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, USA