The Autistic Child

ability abnormal achieve action activity acts adaptive Amer anxiety appears autistic child autistic children becomes begins behavior body brain capacity cells childhood clinical communication complete concept creative defect depends determined difficulty disorders disturbance early effective emotional enable environment experience expression external factors fails failure feeling forces function gives gradually hand hearing human increase individual infant inner integration intellectual intelligence involves lack language leads learning limited living maintain manifestations means mechanisms memory ment mental mind months mother motor movements nature needs normal objects observed organization parents patterns perception performance period personality physical play positive present problem produce Psychiat Psychol reactions reality relations relationship remains requires response result retardation reveals sense sensory shows situation skills social sounds specific speech stimulation structure takes tests things thinking thought tion understanding visual withdrawal York