University College London, UK.
Autism. 2014 Jan;18(1):6-16. doi: 10.1177/1362361313497538. Epub 2013 Oct 22.
There is a growing body of opinion that we should view autism as fractionable into different, largely independent sets of clinical features. The alternative view is that autism is a coherent syndrome in which principal features of the disorder stand in intimate developmental relationship with each other. Studies of congenitally blind children offer support for the latter position and suggest that a source of coherence in autism is restriction in certain forms of perceptually dependent social experience.
越来越多的观点认为，我们应该将自闭症分为不同的、基本上相互独立的临床特征集。另一种观点认为，自闭症是一种连贯的综合征，其中疾病的主要特征彼此之间存在密切的发展关系。对先天性失明儿童的研究支持后一种观点，并表明自闭症的一致性来源于某些形式的依赖感知的社会经验受限。
