Atypical antipsychotics in children with pervasive developmental disorders.

The treatment of pervasive developmental disorders (PDDs) is a challenging task, which should include behavioral therapy modifications as well as pharmacologic therapy. There has been a lack of data on using medications in children with PDDs until recent years. Within the last 10 years, an increase in clinical research has attempted to provide efficacy and safety data to support the use of medications in children with PDDs.

Role of risperidone in children with autism spectrum disorder.

Objective: To review the clinical trials investigating the efficacy and safety of risperidone in the treatment of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

Data Sources: Searches of MEDLINE/PubMed (1992-February 2006) were conducted, as well as an extensive manual review of journals, using the key words autism and risperidone.

Study Selection And Data Extraction: Only double-blind, placebo-controlled trials were included for review.

The emergence of the listener to speaker component of naming in children as a function of multiple exemplar instruction.

We tested the effect of multiple exemplar instruction on the transfer of stimulus function for unfamiliar pictures across listener responses (i.e., matching and pointing) and speaker responses (i.