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ReviewJournal of autism and developmental disorders2021

Theories of Autism and Autism Treatment from the DSM III Through the Present and Beyond: Impact on Research and Practice.

Giacomo Vivanti, Daniel S Messinger

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Review in Journal of autism and developmental disorders, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Prediction by Young Autistic Children from Visual and Spoken Input.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026
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  2. Proportion and Profile of Autistic Children Not Acquiring Spoken Language Despite Receiving Evidence-Based Early Interventions.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53 · 2025
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  3. Maximizing the Quality and Reporting Standards of Autism Intervention Science.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025
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  4. Autistic Adults Anticipate Simple and Complex Narrative Events.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025
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  8. What are quantitative traits and how can they be used in autism research?Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2023
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  10. Autism.Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent · 2023
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  16. Celebrating 40 years since DSM-III.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2021
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  17. Autism and Visual impairment: A First Approach to a Complex Relationship.Clinical practice and epidemiology in mental health : CP & EMH · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Giacomo VivantiA.J. Drexel Autism Institute, Drexel University, 3020 Market Street, Suite 560, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA. giacomo.vivanti@drexel.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4034-9157
Daniel S MessingerDepartments of Psychology, Pediatrics, Music Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The purely descriptive definition of autism introduced by the DSM III in 1980 marked a departure from previous DSM editions, which mixed phenomenological descriptions with psychoanalytic theories of etiology. This provided a blank slate upon which a variety of novel theories emerged to conceptualize autism and its treatment in the following four decades. In this article we examine the contribution of these different theoretical orientations with a focus on their impact on research and practice, areas of overlap and conflict between current theories, and their relevance in the context of the evolving landscape of scientific knowledge and societal views of autism.

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Autism Spectrum DisorderAutistic DisorderDiagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental DisordersHumansKnowledgeAutismAutism treatmentSocial cognitionSocial motivation

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