Michael Rutter

TL;DR: In a group of children studied longitudinally from infancy, the characteristics of behavioural reactivity of the 21 coming to psychiatric notice were compared with those of the remaining 71, finding that the clinical cases differed significantly from the children not presenting problems of behaviour, in that they were more irregular, non-adaptable, intense, and exhibited more negative mood.

TL;DR: This chapter focuses on a qualitative description of what the children were like at the time of leaving institutional care and the features of the four postulated DSPs between the ages of 6 and 11 years, starting with quasi-autism.

TL;DR: Examination of predictors of parent-child relationship quality and developmental change in a sample of children adopted into the U.K. following severe early privation and in a comparison sample of nondeprived, within-country adoptees indicated that adoptive parent- child relationship quality was related to duration of deprivation and that cognitive/developmental delay mediated this association.

TL;DR: Spontaneously echolalic autistic children who had never used the pronoun I were exposed to short sentences containing several personal pronouns in all positions in a 3-word utterance and there was no tendency for children to avoid the repetition of I,once sentence position was controlled.