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Preschool Children with Inadequate Communication: Developmental Language Disorder, Autism, Mental Deficiency. Edited by Isabelle Rapin. (Pp 299; £45 hardback.) Mac Keith Press, 1996. ISBN 1-898-68307-7 .
As a clinician, one of the most difficult tasks that I repeatedly face is the assessment of a preschool child who has been referred because of concerns regarding the child’s language acquisition, but nearly always there is the concomitant worry from the parents about ‘other odd behaviours’. I know immediately that I am entering the diagnostic dilemma of social and communication developmental disorders. I am also very aware of the relative limitations in our knowledge regarding certain aspects of these children’s functioning and particularly regarding prognosis that parents are bound to raise. Any rigorous research that furthers our thinking about the aetiology and clinical picture of these disorders so we can diagnostically differentiate such categories as …