It has long been recognized that people with identifiable congenital causes of developmental disabilities display peculiar patterns of behavior and temperament. An explosion of new information in the field of so-called behavioral genetics has precipitated a need for a book describing behaviorial phenotypes. The book consists of three parts: Part I opens with an account of the evolution of behaviorial genetics in developmental disability. The second part covers measurement and research methodology and includes chapters on various types of self-injurious behavior that occur in different...
It has long been recognized that people with identifiable congenital causes of developmental disabilities display peculiar patterns of behavior and te...
This is a new specialist reference on the most common physical disability--the cerebral palsies. It follows up on the authors' earlier work The Epidemiology of the Cerebral Palsies (1984). In this volume the authors explore
How best to study causes
How to use the massive amount of information available internationally
How to collect and analyze data
Trends in the cerebral palsies
New ways of thinking about causal pathways in the cerebral palsies that suggest possible new prevention pathways
The systematic management of the cerebral palsies. This is a timely...
This is a new specialist reference on the most common physical disability--the cerebral palsies. It follows up on the authors' earlier work The Epidem...
