infantile autism

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infantile autism

Autism.

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infantile autism - a rare but serious syndrome of childhood characterized by withdrawal and lack of social responsiveness or interest in others and serious linguistic deficits; "there is considerable dispute among specialists concerning infantile autism"

autism - (psychiatry) an abnormal absorption with the self; marked by communication disorders and short attention span and inability to treat others as people

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His 1964 book, Infantile Autism, won the Century Prize and is credited with compelling psychiatry to recognize that autism is caused by biology not bad parenting.

Bernard Rimland. (Living Treasures) by Mothering

Bobbie's nine-year-old daughter, Allana, has infantile autism, the most severe form of this developmental brain disorder.

Hitting a Brick Wall by BOGO, JENNIFER / E

As director of the Orthogenic School, the home for emotionally troubled children at the University of Chicago, and as the author of books like ``Love Is Not Enough'' and ``Truants From Life,'' he had secured his reputation as an expert on child psychology in general and on the condition known as infantile autism in particular.

PSYCHOLOGY'S FALSE PROPHET : SELF-INVENTION REVEALED TO BE PIONEER'S ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)

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