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Peer reviewedGillberg, Christopher; Steffenburg, Suzanne – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1987
The follow-up study reports data from a population-based series of 23 Swedish children diagnosed in childhood as suffering from infantile autism and other childhood psychoses and followed through to the ages of 16-23 years. Intelligence quotient at diagnosis and communicative speech development before six years were the most important prognostic…
Descriptors: Autism, Followup Studies, Foreign Countries, Intelligence Quotient
