Perspectivas teóricas actuales acerca de la etiología del autismo
ISSN: 0213-8646
Year of publication: 1992
Issue: 13
Pages: 193-200
Type: Article
More publications in: RIFOP : Revista interuniversitaria de formación del profesorado: continuación de la antigua Revista de Escuelas Normales
Abstract
The goal of this paper is to stablish a comparative study about autism by different etiologyque perspectives. The affective theory suggest that autism appear with an innate inhability to form the affective contanct with people. The cognitive formulation found that autistic children have severe and specific difficulty creating and handling meterepresentation. On the other hand, the interactionist view analyzes the difficulties in the interactive proccess. Perspectives and implications are discussed and more lines of research are suggested