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  title info:
    title: Understanding developmental disorders
    sub title: a causal modelling approach
  name:
    name part: Morton, John
    name part: 1933-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: mau
    place:
      place term: Malden, MA
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    publisher: Blackwell Pub.
    date issued: 2004
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 300 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: The study of developmental disorders is handicapped by the conflicting claims of biological, cognitive and behavioural disciplines/levels/methods. The authors tackle this problem by means of a visually compelling notation, causal modelling. This notation enables the three levels to be kept separate and to be seen in relation to each other. Causal modelling allows the expression of any theory that can be verbally fomulated. The starting point is the work of the CDU on autism, where the notation allows the expression of the multiple biological origin, the tight cognitive focus and the confusing behavioural variability associated with that condition. The notation then makes it easy to compare and contrast current theories. Developmental dyslexia is another disorder where the causal modelling approach has proved illuminating. It is here that the role of the environment on development becomes clear. The technique also turns out to be valuable in clarifying diagnostic practice. This is demonstrated here through analysis of hyperactivity, anti-social personality disorder and schizophrenia.
  table of contents: Introducing cause -- Introducing cognition -- Representing causal relationships -- Autism -- The what and the how -- Competing causal accounts of autism -- The problem of diagnosis -- A causal analysis of dyslexia -- The hyperkinetic confusions -- Theories of conduct disorder -- Tying in biology.
  note: John Morton.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-291) and indexes.
  subject:
    topic: Developmental disabilities
    topic: Etiology
  subject:
    topic: Child development deviations
    topic: Etiology
  subject:
    topic: Conduct disorders in children
    topic: Etiology
  subject:
    topic: Cognition disorders in children
    topic: Etiology
  subject:
    topic: Intellectual disability
    topic: Etiology
  subject:
    topic: Parent and child
  subject:
    topic: Cognition
  subject:
    topic: Causation
  subject:
    topic: Children
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical models
  subject:
    topic: Developmental Disabilities
    topic: physiopathology
  subject:
    topic: Developmental Disabilities
    topic: psychology
  subject:
    topic: Parent-Child Relations
  subject:
    topic: Cognition
  subject:
    topic: Causality
  subject:
    topic: Child
  subject:
    topic: Models, Theoretical
  classification: RJ506.D47 M67 2004eb
  classification: 616.85/88071
  classification: 2005 B-028
  classification: WS 350.6 M889 2004
  classification: 44.91
  classification: 77.53
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    title info:
      title: Understanding developmental disorders
    name:
      name part: Morton, John, 1933-
    origin info:
      publisher: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell Pub., 2004
    identifier: (DLC) 2004009013
  identifier: 9780470694312
  identifier: 0470694319
  identifier: 9780470773307
  identifier: 0470773308
  identifier: 0631187588
  identifier: 9780631187585
  identifier: 9780631187578
  identifier: 063118757X
  identifier: 10.1002/9780470773307 Wiley InterScience
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    record creation date: 080327
    record change date: 20260214200004.0
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    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng