Autism and Autistic-like Conditions in Mental Retardation

For every 100 children and adults who display autism, some 80 are mentally retarded. This book argues that it is vital to consider autism and autistic-like conditions using the mental retardation field as a frame of reference and presents a scale designed to help with this. The scale, PDD-MRS, is introduced and explained in a separate chapter. Other chapters concern themselves with the problems of mentally retarded persons displaying prevasive developmental disorders of the entire spectrum, the prevalence of the disorder, its management and treatment in children with PDD, and what may be expected by way of their future development.