COVER -- Pervasive Developmental Disorder -- Contents -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- Sam Likes Trains -- Introduction -- 1 What is Pervasive Developmental Disorder? -- 2 Social Reciprocity -- 3 Communication -- 4 Impairment in Play Style -- 5 More Characteristics -- 6 The Evaluation Process -- 7 What Can Be Done? Medical Perspective -- 8 What Can Be Done? Educational Perspective -- 9 Additional Options -- 10 Up Close and Personal -- RESOURCES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.
Written principally for parents, this is a book which explains what it means for your child to be diagnosed with PDD, NOS, autism or Asperger Syndrome, and where you go from there. The authors describe the symptoms of PDD, what a diagnosis means, how a child fits into the diagnostic terminology and the diagnostic procedures involved.
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