Early infantile autism

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Contents 1 Used for 2 Broader Terms 3 Related Terms 4 Scope Note 5 Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

Used for

Kanner's syndrome

Broader Terms

autism, child mental disorder

Related Terms

psychosis

Scope Note

type of autism characterized by very early detection (< 30 months), social coldness, grossly impaired communication, and bizarre motor responses.

Facts (generated by robot; please edit if you find it inaccurate)

• The alternative to early infantile autism is regressive autism, in which neurological development superficially appears normal for the first 18 months or so and then switches to the autistic pattern.
• I have tried to indicate that although Kanner's syndrome of early infantile autism is a valuable concept, it describes only a limited group of children from the particular sophisticated, intellectual strata who have consulted Professor Kanner, but it is not a clinica 1078 l or etiological entity.
• 68) believes "that there is sufficient information at hand to demonstrate clearly that early infantile autism is not the same disease or cluster of diseases which has come to be called childhood schizophrenia, and that autism can and should be distinguished from it at all levels of discourse.
• Early infantile autism is present at birth while regressive autism begins at 18 months.
• Early infantile autism is present at birth while regressive autism begins at approximately 18 months.

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