Matching preschool children with autism spectrum disorders and comparison children for language ability: methodological challenges.
Earlier identification of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) is welcome, but presents a number of challenges to the clinical and the research enterprises (see Charman & Baird [2002] for a review). In the research enterprise, one critical methodological challenge is the use of appropriate...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Autism & Developmental Disorders Vol. 34; no. 1; pp. 59 - 65 |
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Springer Nature
Feb2004
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