Geraldine Dawson, Ph.D., Professor of Psychology at the University of Washington in Seattle, is editor of Autism: Nature, Diagnosis, and Treatment. Internationally recognized for her scientific research on autism and developmental psychopathology, particularly the effects of early experience on development, she earned her doctorate in developmental and child clinical psychology at the University of Washington, and received postdoctoral training at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute.
Kurt W. Fischer, Ph.D., is Professor of Education in the
Department of Human Development and Psychology at Harvard
University, where he is leading an initiative to focus on diversity
in development and its implications for education. During
1992-1993, he was a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the
Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, where he organized a group on
Dynamic Modeling of Growth and Development.
Makes excellent use of graphs and neuroimaging illustrations, with
clarifying descriptions....It is as important to the clinical child
neuropsychologist as to the developmental neuroscientist. This book
could easily be the backbone of a su perb upper-level graduate
course. - Doody's Journal
Provocative reading for researchers and clinicians....Well written.
- Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography
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