This cross-disciplinary reference offers a thorough overview of the communication, language, social, and behavioral issues characteristic of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs).

This one-page scale facilitates early detection of aberrant patterns of parent-infant responsiveness and was designed for easy and rapid use by pediatric and mental health practitioners.

The authors examine clinical vignettes, research findings, methodological considerations, and historical accounts of children with autism through the lens of developmental psychopathology

This book will help practitioners and parents understand and treat young children diagnosed with various disorders such as Multisystem Developmental Disorder (MSDD), Pervasive Developmental Disorder (PDD), and Autistic Disorder

This unique event included experts from around the world who came together to present the latest research on recognition of autism in the first year of life and strategies for early intervention.

The younger the child, the more difficult it is to spot signs of communication disorders. This presentation discusses observing posture, parental behavior, and the infant-mother interaction.

This presentation examines The Mifne Method, developed in 1987, an early-autism-intervention program of direct individual and family therapy for infants and toddlers who are diagnosed with autism.

This presentation explores the initial results from a retrospective video study assessing child and parent purposeful social-emotional initiations and responses collected across four time points from children under 15 months.

The presentation examines the issues facing the family and the clinician in providing sensitive intervention that addresses the problem of early identification as well as the interplay between constitutional factors and certain specifics of caregiving.

This presentation reviews the research into the natural history of autism prior to treatment, and offers illustrative vignettes from filmed cases.

This presentation examines symptoms of pre-autism, the methods devised in the last twenty-five years to encourage the development, and an individual case of autism intervention.

In this presentation a wide range of behavioral development are illustrated by analyses of the home videos of two homozygous twin girls, both of whom developed ASD, but at different ages.

The purpose of this presentation is to examine the linkage between parent-child play interactions and the social/ communicative development of children with autism.

This presentation, by Sandra Maestro and Filippo Muratori, provides a brief history of the research and methodology for treating autism in infancy based on the retrospective analysis of home movies.

In this presentation Lonnie Zwaigenbaum and Shelley Mitchell review the initial findings of baby sibs studies of over 100 younger siblings of children with autism who have been followed from infancy to age 3-4 years.

As cases of autism continue to rise worldwide the successful DIR/Floortime approach, described in this book by Drs Stanley Greenspan and Serena Wieder, is producing very promising results that could one day stem the tide against this dread disorder.

This book presents recent advances in understanding and treating autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in very young children.

Authorities of clinical work with emotional and developmental challenges in the early years of life show how to use their systematic approach, the DIR (Developmental, Individual-Differences, Relationship-Based) model, to treat young children with emotional and developmental problems.

This book provides an explanation of how people first began using symbols and how symbols evolved and were passed down through multiple centuries.

Stella Acquarone began her pioneering career as a child psychotherapist and this book is based upon her observations and treatment of over 3,500 parents and their infants throughout several decades.