Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Editorial

• Editorial Introduction

Gary B. Mesibow

Attentional Capacities in Children with Autism: Is There a General Deficit in Shifting Focus?

Daisy M. Pascualvaca, Bryan D. Fantie, Maria Papageorgiou, Allan F. Mirsky

Children with Autism Fail to Orient to Naturally Occurring Social Stimuli

Geraldine Dawson, Andrew N. Meltzoff, Julie Osterling, Julie Rinaldi, Emily Brown

Spontaneous Play in Children with Autism: A Reappraisal

Sarah Libby, Stuart Powell, David Messer, Rita Jordan

Autistic Behavior in Young Boys with Fragile X Syndrome

Donald B. Bailey Jr., Gary B. Mesibov, Deborah D. Hatton, Renee D. Clark, Jane E. Roberts, Lisa Mayhew

Social Functioning Among Girls with Fragile X or Turner Syndrome and Their Sisters

Michèle M. M. Mazzocco, Thomas Baumgardner, Lisa S. Freund, Allan L. Reiss

The Preserved Speech Variant: A Subgroup of the Rett Complex: A Clinical Report of 30 Cases

Michele Zappella, Christopher Gillberg, Stephan Ehlers

Delayed Language Onset as a Predictor of Clinical Symptoms in Pervasive Developmental Disorders

Richard Eisenmajer, Margot Prior, Sue Leekam, Lorna Wing, Ben Ong, Judith Gould, Michael Welham

Procedures for Teaching Appropriate Gestural Communication Skills to Children with Autism

Dawn M. Buffington, Patricia J. Krantz, Lynn E. McClannahan, Claire L. Poulson

Subtyping Stereotypic Behavior in Children: The Association Between Stereotypic Behavior, Mood, and Heart Rate

Sophie H. N. Willemsen-Swinkels, Jan K. Buitelaar, Marjoleine Dekker, Herman van Engeland

Brief Report: The Development of the Children's Social Behavior Questionnaire: Preliminary Data

Ellen (E.F.) Luteijn, Sandy (A.E.) Jackson, Fred R. Volkmar, Ruud B. Minderaa

Brief Report: The Association of Neurofibromatosis Type 1 and Autism

P. Gail Williams, Joseph H. Hersh

Brief Report: Treatment of Echolalia in a Girl with Rubinstein-Taybi Syndrome: Functional Assessment of Minimizing Chances to Provoke Echolalia

Bo In Chung

Letters to the Editor

• Letter to the Editor

Nicole Simon, Bernard Rimland, Robert L. Findling, Kathleen Maxwell, Max Wiznitzer

Ask the Editor

Gary B. Mesibov