My son Alexander is 11 years old. It was not until he was about 4 years old that I ceased thinking that he was 9just like me9 — bull-headed and slow-to-speak as a toddler, disruptive and inconsiderate in grade school — and accepted his diagnosis ... . Clarence Schutt, a Princeton professor and father of a child with autism (from NAARRATIVE, newsletter of the National Alliance for Autism Research, 1997) Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are a collection of neurologically based developmental disorders characterized by impaired social interaction, impaired verbal and nonverbal communication, and abnormal, restricted, stereotyped behaviors.
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Johnson et al. (1999) studied this question.