A Classification of Schizophrenic Children Under Five Years
BARBARA FISH M.D.1,
THEODORE SHAPIRO M.D.2,
MAGDA CAMPBELL M.D.3, , and
RENEE WILE M.S.W.3
1 Associate Professor, Department of psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10016, psychiatristin-charge of children's and adolescent services, Bellevue Hospital, psychiatric division
2 Assistant Professor, Department of psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10016
3 Instructor, Department of psychiatry, New York University School of Medicine, 550 First Avenue, New York, N. Y. 10016
Previous studies have demonstrated that severity of language impairment at five years of age is a critical determinant of long-term outcome for young schizophrenic children. Degrees of language impairment were therefore used as the major criteria for this prognostic classification of two-to five-year-old psychotic children. The classification discriminated patients with high and low probabilities of success with drugs and other treatments. it appears that it is also an indicator of long-term prognosis.
