“High-functioning autism” isn’t an official medical term or diagnosis. It’s an informal one some people use when they talk about people with autism spectrum disorder, or ASD,who can speak, read, write, and handle basic life skills like eating and getting dressed. They can live independe...
They scored even higher on this trait than did people diagnosed with Asperger'ssyndrome, a high-functioning form of autism that typically includes obsession with details. 他们在自闭症特征上的得分甚至比患有“阿斯伯格综合征”的人分数还高,阿斯伯格综合征是一种高功能性的自闭,通常包括对细节痴迷的特征。
Little is known about the symptom profile of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) in individuals who have autism spectrum disorders (ASD). It is also unknown whether self-report questionnaires are useful in measuring OCD in ASD. We sought to describe the symptom profiles of adults with ASD, OCD...
Autismis a developmental disability that affects how a person communicates with and relates to other people, as well as how a person makes sense of the world. It is considered a neurological disorder that affects the brain and nervous system for the duration of a person's lifetime. Autism is...
(2009) What do students with Asperger Syndrome or high-functioning autism want at college and university? (in their own words). Good Autism Practice, 10 (2): 35-43Beardon, L, Martin, N, and Woolsey, I (2009) What do students with Asperger syndrome or high functioning autism want at ...
As more and more very young children were receiving an autism diagnosis, more and more parents were researching the subject, and many of them discovered that they themselves had a milder version of their children’s condition: they had high functioning autism, known as Asperger’s Syndrome. In...
What is Asperger's Syndrome? Asperger's and other similar disorders that were previously diagnosed separately are now part of a wide diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder (ASD). According to the US group Autism Speaks, people or children with Asperger Syn...
Medication treatment is considered by clinicians and families to address problems with functioning due to psychiatric problems, and, as such, one-third of children and adolescents with ASD take at least one psychotropic medication and many use complementary and alternative medicine. This paper reviews ...
Autism, or autism spectrum disorders, is a neurodevelopmental condition characterized by limitations in social interaction, communication skills, and repetitive behaviors. Although motor disorders were previously considered marginal in autism, recent research has highlighted their significance. Numerous studies ...
One of the Brown's gripes about the conversation about autism is they feel it is still dominated by non-autistic people. "...to the extent that autistic people ourselves are offered more of a platform or an opportunity to be considered as collaborators in autism research or in policy-making...