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Tero Toivanen

Why Asperger Syndrome Will Disappear - 5 views

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  • The American Psychiatric Association (APA) is now in the process of developing and finalizing the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) Version 5.
  • autism spectrum disorders as we know them will change radically, and many people who are now considered to be "autistic" may find themselves with a brand new diagnosis.
  • Unless something changes between now and then, as of 2013, Asperger syndrome will no longer exist as a diagnosis.
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  • A person with present symptoms of Asperger syndrome would fall in the diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Disorder, and we would expect there to be additional specifiers like "without intellectual disability", "with fluent speech", etc., which we believe will better describe the diagnostic picture for such a person than is currently done with the term Asperger Syndrome alone.
  • Tero Toivanen on 26 Jun 11
     
    "Unless something changes between now and then, as of 2013, Asperger syndrome will no longer exist as a diagnosis."
Tero Toivanen

About The Ability of Asperger Syndrome Children to Hyper-Focus | - I Teach Autism.com - - 0 views

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shared by Tero Toivanen on 13 Jul 09 - Cached
  • The Asperger Syndrome hyper-focusing trait can be helpful in a classroom setting when educators choose to use this extreme attention span as a tool.
  • If normal classroom learning procedures are not getting through to an AS child, try working with the theme that they are already working with. As an example, a few words about their chosen object mentioned during a history lesson, can perhaps make the entire history lesson memorable.
  • the Asperger Syndrome hyper-focus ability is a learning style. AS children have the ability to hyper-focus their way into learning traditional subjects.
  • Tero Toivanen on 13 Jul 09
     
    The Asperger Syndrome hyper-focusing trait can be helpful in a classroom setting when educators choose to use this extreme attention span as a tool.
Tero Toivanen

Facing Autism in New Brunswick: Autism Diagnoses: DSM V Should Separate Autistic Disord... - 0 views

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autism diagnoses DSM V HFA Asperger Syndrome

shared by Tero Toivanen on 12 May 09 - Cached
  • This inclusion of substantially different disorders, with wildly different challenges, in one "spectrum" of disorders implies that the very serious challenges of persons with Autistic Disorder who lack a fundamental understanding of the world, who have very limited abstract thought and who have very little in the way of communication skills are somehow fundamentally similar to persons with good to excellent facilities in all these crucial areas of life.
  • Research is resulting in more and more people describing autism in the plural as autism disorders with different causes and different possible treatments.
  • It is time for the DSM to get realistic about the Autism "Spectrum".
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  • It is time to merge High Functioning autism disorders with Aspergers Disorder and separate them from Autistic Disorder.
  • It is time for the DSM to recognize the importance of levels of ability to function in and understand the world and to reflect those levels in their classification of development disorders.
  • Tero Toivanen on 12 May 09
     
    It is time to merge High Functioning autism disorders with Aspergers Disorder and separate them from Autistic Disorder.
Tero Toivanen

Asperger Syndrome Tied to Low Cortisol Levels - 0 views

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shared by Tero Toivanen on 04 Apr 09 - Cached
  • Low levels of a stress hormone may be responsible for the obsession with routine and dislike for new experiences common in children with a certain type of autism.
  • The body produces cortisol, among other hormones, in stressful situations. Cortisol increases blood pressure and blood sugar levels, among other duties, to signal the body's need to adapt to changes occurring around it.
  • People with Asperger syndrome notably have very repetitive or narrow patterns of thought and behavior, such as being obsessed with either a single object or topic. Though tending to become experts in this limited domain, they have otherwise very limited social skills, according to the study.
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  • "Although these are early days, we think this difference in stress hormone levels could be really significant in explaining why children with AS are less able to react and cope with unexpected change,"
  • If these Asperger symptoms are caused primarily by stress, caregivers could learn to steer children away from situations that would add to anxiety, the researchers said.
  • "This study suggests that children with AS may not adjust normally to the challenge of a new environment on waking,"
  • The researchers, whose findings were published in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology, will next study if this lack of cortisol upon waking also occurs in children with other types of autism.
  • Tero Toivanen on 04 Apr 09
     
    Low levels of a stress hormone may be responsible for the obsession with routine and dislike for new experiences common in children with a certain type of autism.
Tero Toivanen

Should Asperger Syndrome Be Considered an Autism Spectrum Disorder? - 2 views

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  • Is Asperger syndrome appropriately included under the autism spectrum umbrella? Or should it, perhaps, be a separate diagnosis of its own, unconnected to autism?
  • Tero Toivanen on 09 Nov 09
     
    Is Asperger syndrome appropriately included under the autism spectrum umbrella? Or should it, perhaps, be a separate diagnosis of its own, unconnected to autism?
Graeme Wadlow

Autism and Asperger Syndrome: A Spectrum of Disability - 0 views

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  • Graeme Wadlow on 04 Jan 12
     
    Autism and Asperger Syndrome: A Spectrum of Disability PII: B0080448542041821 - Powered by Google Docs
Jessica Dunton

Sensory Integrate Home - 0 views

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  • Jessica Dunton on 17 Aug 09
     
    Free Resources and information for families who have children with autism, Asperger Syndrome, and sensory disorders.
Tero Toivanen

Asperger Syndrome Information - 1 views

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OASIS Asperger Syndrome autism

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  • Tero Toivanen on 22 May 09
     
    O nline A sperger S yndrome I nformation & S upport
Graeme Wadlow

Eye-witness memory and suggestibility in children with Asperger syndrome. - 0 views

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RP1 autm memory eye-witness suggestibility executive function Autism ASD Wiley InterScience Asperger Syndrome

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  • Graeme Wadlow on 04 Jan 12
     
    Eamon McCrory. 2007; Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry - Wiley InterScience
Tero Toivanen

Asperger Square 8: Judging a Book by its Cover - 0 views

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  • I've heard too many cracks from "helpful" people, telling people not to call us autistics, or autistic people, but "people with autism," with the reasoning that "You don't call somebody a cancer patient, you call them a person with cancer." It makes me a little more sad and angry every time I see that comparison, and this... is the worst thing so far, in that vein.
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      Tero Toivanen on 08 Mar 09
       
      How to call this people?
  • Tero Toivanen on 08 Mar 09
     
    Judging a Book by its Cover
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AspergerDVDSeries - 0 views

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aspergerdvdseries Aspereger Syndrome Professor's Guide

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  • Tero Toivanen on 07 Mar 09
     
    This title in the new DVD series Asperger Syndrome and Adulthood focuses on educating professors, teaching assistants, and others on what it means to be a college student on the spectrum and how they might best be able to help them succeed.
Tero Toivanen

Autism Research Blog: Translating Autism: High functioning autism vs. Asperger's. Autis... - 0 views

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asperger high functioning autism diagnostic

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  • Tero Toivanen on 20 Feb 09
     
    Much controversy and confusion remains about the differences between high functioning autism and Asperger's syndrome. As the authors described, there are many areas of overlap as well as differences between the original Asperger's proposal and autism.
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Autism Blog - Autism and aspergers are essentially the same « Left Brain/Righ... - 0 views

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autism Asperger's Syndrome diagnosis

shared by Tero Toivanen on 03 Jul 09 - Cached
  • The histories of autism and Asperger’s Disorder (AD), based on original contributions by Kanner and Asperger, are reviewed in relation to DSM-IV diagnostic criteria.
  • Based on up-to-date empirical research, however, it appears that AD and autism are not qualitatively distinct disorders, but are different quantitative manifestations of the same disorder.
  • The differences between AD and autism may be a function of individual variability in these areas, not the manifestation of qualitatively distinct disorders.
  • Tero Toivanen on 03 Jul 09
     
    Based on up-to-date empirical research, however, it appears that AD and autism are not qualitatively distinct disorders, but are different quantitative manifestations of the same disorder. The differences between AD and autism may be a function of individual variability in these areas, not the manifestation of qualitatively distinct disorders.
Graeme Wadlow

Identification and Evaluation of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders - 0 views

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RP1 autm Pediatrics indentification Autism ASD Asperger Syndrome

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  • Graeme Wadlow on 04 Jan 12
     
    Full Free Text Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics
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Parental stress associated with caring for children with Asperger's syndrome or autism - 0 views

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    IngentaConnect Pediatrics International
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Management of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders - 0 views

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    Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Nicole Mays

The promise of genetics and autism | Psychology Today - 1 views

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Wired 9.12: The Geek Syndrome - 0 views

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autism aspergers science brain Technology

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  • Tero Toivanen on 24 Feb 09
     
    Autism - and its milder cousin Asperger's syndrome - is surging among the children of Silicon Valley. Are math-and-tech genes to blame?
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