Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Preface

• Preface

Catherine Lord

Variables Related to Differences in Standardized Test Outcomes for Children with Autism

Lynn Kern Koegel, Robert L. Koegel, Annette Smith

A Comparison of Speaking and Mute Individuals with Autism and Autistic-Like Conditions on the Autism Behavior Checklist

Fredrika M. Miranda-Linné, Lennart Melin

Social Perception in Children with Autism: An Attentional Deficit?

Karen Pierce, Katherine S. Glad, Laura Schreibman

Sensory-Perceptual Abnormalities in Autism: A Case For More Research?

Meena O'Neill, Robert S. P. Jones

Autistic Children's Responses to Separation and Reunion with Their Mothers

Cheryl Dissanayake, Stella A. Crossley

Risperidone and Explosive Aggressive Autism

Joseph P. Horrigan, L. Jarrett Barnhill

Brief Report: Prompted Pretend Play in Autism

Tony Charman, Simon Baron-Cohen

Brief Report: Autistic Children's Attentiveness and Responsivity Improve After Touch Therapy

Tiffany Field, David Lasko, Peter Mundy, Tanja Henteleff, Susan Kabat, Susan Talpins, Monica Dowling

Book Review The World of the Autistic Child: Understanding and Treating Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Bryna Siegel. New York, Oxford University Press, 1996, vii + 351 pp., $27.50 (hardback)

Steven R. Love

Letters to the Editor

• Letter to the Editor

Zbigniew Szot, Michael G. Aman, Mary E. Van Bourgondien, Patricia W. Osborne, Geeta Sarphare, S. Panerai, L. Ferrante, V. Caputo, Patricia Howlin

Ask the Editor

Catherine Lord