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The parents were interviewed and the scales were administered. Observation of the child's behavior was routinely done. Sample size was 50. Data collected was analyzed using SPSS software version 7.5. Results Sample Characteristics: The sample consisted of children between ages of 20 months to 185 months. Of the 50 cases taken into the study, 45 were males and 5 were females giving sex ratio of 9: 1. The VSMS scores had a mean of 67 and standard deviation was 30.Their language development profile showed that 5 children 10% ; had a normal language development, 22 children 44% ; had mildly impaired language development, 19 children 38% ; had moderate impairment and 4 children 8% ; had severe impairment in language. Using DSM-IV ICD-10 criteria 23 children 46% ; were found to have a diagnosable co-morbid disorder and 17 children 34% ; presented with a subsyndromal diagnosis; falling short of the complete diagnosis by just one criterion Table 1 ; . Specific co-morbidity Specific co-morbidity details are depicted in Table2 Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ADHD ; was found to be the commonest co-morbid condition in this sample with 10 children 20% ; reaching syndromal status and another 8 children 16% ; having a subsyndromal diagnosis. Anxiety Disorders: 22% of the subjects had an anxiety disorder. Out of a total of 11 cases, 7 14% ; cases were diagnosed as specific phobia, 3 Distribution of Syndromal & 6% ; cases as separation anxiety disorder and one 2% ; case Subsyndromal Co-Morbidity as generalized anxiety disorder. The minimum age of children with specific phobia was 32 months and the maximum age Co-morbidity N % 168 months. Co-morbidity syndromal ; 23 46 The stimuli for specific phobia included men with beards, Co-morbidity subsyndromal ; 17 34 people wearing spectacles, a particular news reader who Total 50 100 according to parents and others was described as pleasant to look at ; or tunes of certain advertisements T.V. serials. Though many more children showed discomfort with similar stimuli only 7 cases out of the 50 ; had it severe enough to meet all the diagnostic criteria. One gets the impression that the nature of stimuli was idiosyncratic in these autistic subjects. Table 1 and tagamet.

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Dr. Ismail and Colleagues Reply TO THE EDITOR: Against the background of their own work on morphogenic variants in schizophrenia 1997 ; , Drs. Trixler and Tnyi comment on our study on minor physical anomalies in 60 patients with schizophrenia, 21 normal siblings of these patients, and 75 demographically similar normal comparison subjects and raise issues concerning 1 ; the reliability of the Waldrop scale, 2 ; the relevance of items on the Waldrop scale for the development of schizophrenia, and 3 ; their own approach for attempting to establish the timing of insults or maldevelopment related to schizophrenia. Our study employed the Waldrop scale and 23 additional minor physical anomalies identified by means of a review of the pediatric literature. Our experience is that quite satisfactory reliability can be obtained for both the Waldrop scale and additional items when researchers train together and decide on the operational criteria used to define particular minor phys486 and temovate.

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