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Clinical Features Associated with Autism

Observations of Symptoms Outside the Diagnostic Boundaries of Autistic Spectrum Disorders

Paul Whiteley

Autism Research Unit, University of Sunderland, UK

Jacqui Rodgers

Division of Psychology, University of Sunderland, UK

Paul Shattock

Autism Research Unit, University of Sunderland, UK

Autism is traditionally viewed as a pervasive developmental disorder, diagnosed on the basis of clinically observed behavioural symptoms in the absence of any quantifiable biochemical or neurological markers. Anecdotal reports of the coincidence of certain physiological anomalies in subgroups of children with autistic spectrum disorders, outside the syndrome's diagnostic definition, have not as yet been adequately catalogued. Findings are presented from parental interviews (n = 46), examining the type and prevalence of these additional health and psychological factors, and their connection to a possible immunological/metabolic basis to autism and associated spectrum disorders.

Key Words: autism • immune system • physiology

Autism, Vol. 2, No. 4, 415-422 (1998)
DOI: 10.1177/1362361398024006
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