Gaze behavior is one of man's most important and frequently used signalling devices. Observation of autistic children at the Park Hospital for Children in Oxford revealed that gaze aversion also appears to have a signalling function, similar to that of “appeasement postures” in certain animals, which serves to inhibit aggression on the part of others. The paper presents an investigation of the social encounters of autistic children, using film records of the children's behavior to illustrate the authors' findings.

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This paper analyses the clinical picture in 80 children referred to the Park Hospital, Oxford, or to the Newcastle department of child psychiatry, and admitted for intensive assessment of their psychosis. All were seen by two psychiatrists and nearly three quarters of them in Oxford. The diagnostic criteria, and the differentiation by age of onset into infantile psychosis (I.P.) and late onset psychosis (L.O.P.) were discussed in the previous paper (Kolvin, I).

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