PEDIATRICS Vol. 47 No. 4 April 1971, pp. 717-722
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SYMPTOMATIC AUTISM IN CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE

William M. Easson M.D.1

1 Department of Psychiatry, Medical College of Ohio at Toledo

While crippling autism may be present in a range of illnesses with psychological and organic etiology, this symptom occurs most frequently when a child has been forced, from infancy or an early age, to live and to grow in his own private world due to a severe perceptual or intellectual handicap. If this symptomatic autism is anticipated, diagnosed, and treated early, the child may develop in a relatively healthy and productive way. Without appropriate treatment the symptomatic autistic child is liable to be increasingly handicapped; eventually such a child is almost indistinguishable from children who are autistic due to other causes. This paper highlights some of the most common causes leading to symptomatic autism.

Submitted on August 31, 1970
Accepted on October 5, 1970