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Marschik, Peter B.; Einspieler, Christa; Oberle, Andreas; Laccone, Franco; Prechtl, Heinz F. R. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2009
The subject of the present study is the development of a girl with the preserved speech variant of Rett disorder. Our data are based on detailed retrospective and prospective video analyses. Despite achieving developmental milestones, movement quality was already abnormal during the girl's first half year of life. In addition, early hand…
Descriptors: Genetic Disorders, Females, Developmental Stages, Child Development
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Kurita, Hiroshi; And Others – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 1992
Eighteen cases of disintegrative psychosis (DP) were compared with 52 cases of infantile autism (IA) with speech loss and 145 IA cases without speech loss. DP cases showed clearer regression after more satisfactory development than the IA cases with speech loss, and by age seven were more severely retarded but similar in autistic symptomatology to…
Descriptors: Autism, Behavior Patterns, Child Development, Comparative Analysis