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This chapter is concerned with disorders within the autistic continuum (Wing, 1988), and not only classic autism as described by Kanner (1943, 1973). The continuum is roughly equivalent to the “pervasive developmental disorders” as defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (third edition, revised) of the American Psychiatric Association (1987). The concept, in the form to be described here, was derived from an epidemiological study of a population of children in a former London borough (Camberwell) carried out by Wing and Gould (1979). The continuum comprises disorders involving the presence, in any form, of the triad of impairments of social interaction, communication, and imagination, together with a marked preference for a rigid, repetitive pattern of activities. (For the sake of brevity, in this chapter the terms autism and autistic will be used to refer to the whole continuum unless qualified as “classic” or “typical” autism, or as “Kanner syndrome” or “Asperger syndrome.”)
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Wing, L. (1992). Manifestations of Social Problems in High-Functioning Autistic People. In: Schopler, E., Mesibov, G.B. (eds) High-Functioning Individuals with Autism. Current Issues in Autism. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2456-8_7
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