Understanding developmental disorders : a causal modelling approach /
The study of developmental disorders is handicapped by the conflicting claims of biological, cognitive and behavioural disciplines/levels/methods. The authors tackle this problem by means of a visually compelling notation, causal modelling. This notation enables the three levels to be kept separate...
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Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2004
Malden, MA ; Oxford : 2004 |
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Table of Contents:
- Introducing cause
- Introducing cognition
- Representing causal relationships
- Autism
- The what and the how
- Competing causal accounts of autism
- The problem of diagnosis
- A causal analysis of dyslexia
- The hyperkinetic confusions
- Theories of conduct disorder
- Tying in biology
- note: Ch. 1 Introducing cause
- Ch. 2 Introducing cognition
- Ch. 3 Representing causal relationships : technical and formal considerations
- Ch. 4 Autism : how causal modelling started
- Ch. 5 what and the how
- Ch. 6 Competing causal accounts of autism
- Ch. 7 problem of diagnosis
- Ch. 8 causal analysis of dyslexia
- Ch. 9 hyperkinetic confusions
- Ch. 10 Theories of conduct disorder
- Ch. 11 Tying in biology
- Ch. 1 Introducing cause
- Ch. 2. Introducing cognition
- Ch. 3. Representing causal relationships : technical and formal considerations
- Ch. 4. Autism : how causal modelling started
- Ch. 5. The what and the how
- Ch. 6. Competing causal accounts of autism
- Ch. 7. The problem of diagnosis
- Ch. 8. A causal analysis of dyslexia
- Ch. 9. The hyperkinetic confusions
- Ch. 10. Theories of conduct disorder
- Ch. 11. Tying in biology
- Ch. 12. To conclude.
- Ch. 1 Introducing cause
- Ch. 2. Introducing cognition
- Ch. 3. Representing causal relationships : technical and formal considerations
- Ch. 4. Autism : how causal modelling started
- Ch. 5. The what and the how
- Ch. 6. Competing causal accounts of autism
- Ch. 7. The problem of diagnosis
- Ch. 8. A causal analysis of dyslexia
- Ch. 9. The hyperkinetic confusions
- Ch. 10. Theories of conduct disorder
- Ch. 11. Tying in biology
- Ch. 12. To conclude.