Ockham’s Razor

Autistic disorder, Asperger syndrome, childhood schizophrenia, pervasive developmental disorder, classic autism, high-functioning autism, low-functioning autism, bipolar disorder, non-verbal learning disability, savant syndrome, ...

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Autism

Some doctors attribute the increased incidence in autism to newer definitions of autism. The term “autism” now includes a wider spectrum of children. For example, a child who is diagnosed with high-functioning autism today may have been ...

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Summer Camp for high functioning, but troubled TWEEN.

Hi, I am in Fort Worth, Texas. My awesome kid, age 11, boy, has hit puberty early (yes, shaving), and all the huge mood issues that go with it on TOP of his Aspergers traits. It is very hard for all of us. I don't want him to spend the ...

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Genetic engineering and autism

... engineering - maybe more appropriately referred to as selective breeding - over the past hundred years that has contributed to the increase in autism during that time, especially of the “high-functioning”, Asperger’s type of autism? ...

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High functioning autism vs. Asperger’s: the VIQ PIQ myth?

I have documented in previous posts that clinicians and researchers have often proposed that high functioning autism and Asperger’s present a significantly different neurocognitive profile (see here and here). ...

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Cassandra and the Aspie: Marriage and Asperger’s Syndrome

Asperger’s Syndrome is sometimes otherwise called “high functioning autism” - those with Asperger’s Syndrome (often called “Aspies”, just as the syndrome is shortened to “Asperger’s”) do not show the same developmental indications as ...

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Special Needs :: RE: High-function Autism

We've been using T4L now with our 14 yr old high-functioning autistic son for almost a year. While the public school had him listed as in 8th grade, he has never functioned that high. We pulled him out of school at the end of last year ...

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[ps87parentnetwork] April is Autism Awareness Month

And "How about look me in the eye: My life with Asperger's," written by John Elder Robinson who suffers from Asperger's Syndrome, a high-functioning form of autism. http://tinyurl.com/4peyum More information about autism can be found ...

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How High-Functioning are you?

I've been speaking to the Outreach coordinator at a local Autism charity (SACAR in Bradford) and she's said that I might be struggling to get a DX because I'm so high-functioning. She has recommended a couple of specialists (one being ...

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Autism 101 and nomenclature.

I don't use the label "HFA" or high functioning autistic. While I endorse the notion that autism exists in gradations or degrees, I don't believe that we have to measure degree by reference to function. My son is generally pre-verbal ...

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