Marshall (1984) highlighted potential parallels between children with developmental disorders of reading and adults who had acquired reading disorders. He advocated the use of a cognitive neuropsychological framework in the investigation of children with developmental abnormalities of cognition, including those with developmental dyslexias. Developmental phonological dyslexia has been extensive...

This study aims to describe language intervention process of an autistic child at the Speech Pathology Department at USP-Bauru. An autistic male child diagnosed at two years old was submitted to private language intervention twice a week, since diagnosis. The study reports the first nine months of therapy. Results show that the child developed functional communication through oral language and ...

abstract background: most of the studies about parenting stress among parents of children with autistic spectrum disorder (asd) have been conducted in western societies. the objective of this research, conducted in iran, is to evaluate the parenting stress among fathers and mothers of children with asd and fi nd the correlation between severity of the disorder in children and the level of paren...

Developmental disabilities and severe mental illness are costly to the affected individual and frequently to their family as well. Little studied are their nondisabled siblings. Here we examine major life course outcomes (education, employment, and marriage) of these siblings in adulthood using data from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study. Our sample comprises 113 individuals with developmental d...

The psychometric properties of the Pervasive Developmental Disorders Rating scale (Eaves, 2003) and the Gilliam Autism Rating Scale (Gilliam, 1995) were investigated in this study. One hundred thirty-four individuals with autism, other pervasive developmental disorders, or conditions frequently confused with autism participated in the study. The results indicated that, with one exception, the r...

Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is defined by impaired social interaction as well as impaired language and communication accompanied by stereotyped/heartbreaking behavioral traits and increased restricted repetitive behaviors [2]. ASD describes a range of conditions (e.g. autism, social and communication deficits, Asperger disorder, childhood disintegrative disorders, pervasive developmental dis...