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Variables Relating to the Mental Development of Children with Infantile Autism
Author(s) -
Kurita Hiroshi
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1986.tb03138.x
Subject(s) - psychology , autism , mental development , developmental psychology , object permanence , mental age , object (grammar) , language development , cognitive psychology , psychiatry , cognitive development , linguistics , cognition , philosophy
Among 54 variables studied in 194 autistic children, nine variables– meaningful words, pointing, eating without assistance, crane symptoms (maneuvers of letting a person manipulate an object by grasping his or her hand and bringing it close to the object), echolalia, changing clothes without assistance, speech loss (loss of once‐emerged meaningful words before 30 months of age), establishment of toilet‐training and diagnosis of MBD –were correlated significantly to the children's mental development levels with absolute values of Kendall's tau 6 over 0.2. A discriminant analysis showed that three positive correlates, i.e., meaningful words, pointing and echolalia , and a negative correlate, i.e., crane symptoms , were important in distinguishing between young autistics with and without unfavorable mental development and possible poor outcomes.