Abstract
The Journal is the primary organ of Continuing Paediatric Medical Education in Sri Lanka. The journal also has a website. Free full text access is available for all readers.The Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is now indexed in SciVerse Scopus (Source Record ID 19900193609), Index Medicus for South-East Asia Region (IMSEAR), CABI (Centre for Agriculture and Bioscience International Global Health Database), DOAJ and is available in Google, as well as Google Scholar.The policies of the journal are modelled on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) Guidelines on Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. Sri Lanka Journal of Child Health is recognised by the International Committee of Medical Journal Editors (ICMJE) as a publication following the ICMJE Recommendations.
Highlights
Autism is a neuro-developmental disorder where the presenting clinical features can be widely heterogeneous
developmental language regression (DLR) may determine the timing of diagnosis and is associated with a younger age of identification of autism[1]
Other disorders demonstrating an early regression of skills are congenital blindness, childhood disintegrative disorder, Rett syndrome and Landau-Kleffner syndrome[2]
Summary
Autism is a neuro-developmental disorder where the presenting clinical features can be widely heterogeneous. Developmental language regression 1Professor, Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Colombo, 2Medical Officer in Psychiatry, Lady Ridgeway Hospital for Children, Colombo, 3Lecturer Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Colombo (Received on 18 January 2011: Accepted on 25 February 2011). In DLR, children lose previously acquired language skills. The diagnostic tool for autism, the Autism Diagnostic Interview (ADI), defines developmental regression as loss of either language or social skills or both. DLR may determine the timing of diagnosis and is associated with a younger age of identification of autism[1]. Developmental regression is a feature seen in some children with autism and is defined as loss of either language or social skills or both, after a period of apparently normal development
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