High Functioning Autism/ Asperger Syndrome
Clinical and therapeutic implications of psychiatric comorbidity in high functioning autism/Asperger syndrome: An Italian study
... with High Functioning Autism (HFA) and Asperger syndrome (AS) [4-6], which are milder forms of autism, according to some ...by high verbal IQ, impaired social interaction, ...
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Cognitive profiles of adults with high functioning autism (HFA) and Asperger syndrome
... Executive functioning covers a wide range of skills that are involved in dealing with novel ...executive functioning hypothesis offers possible explanations for the various impairments often associated with ...
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Parental perspectives on the transition to secondary school for students with Asperger syndrome and high functioning autism: A pilot survey study
... Peters, R and Brooks, R (2016) Parental perspectives on the transition to secondary school for students with Asperger syndrome and high-functioning autism: A pilot survey study. British ...
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Brief report : imitation of meaningless gestures in individuals with Asperger syndrome and high-functioning autism
... with Asperger syndrome (AS)/ High-Functioning Autism (HFA) (ages 7–15) were tested on imitation of two types of meaningless gesture: hand postures and finger ...
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Right Hand Preference in Implicit Motor Learning in Children with High-Functioning Autism and Asperger Syndrome
... with Asperger syndrome only and Brown et al (36) mentioned children with Autism spectrum conditions in their study and no specific diagnose was ...as Asperger syndrome and most of them ...
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Psychiatric comorbidities in asperger syndrome and high functioning autism: diagnostic challenges
... Despite autism has been considered for many years a sort of early psychosis there are not many studies inves- tigating the association between psychotic symptoms and ...higher- functioning) depression, and ...
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Health-related quality of life in parents of school-age children with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism
... previous studies that have shown that mothers' mental health is related to the child's disability [8,12-14,40,42]. Of course it is possible that our failure to match such find- ings is due to the low power of the current ...
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Insomnia in school age children with Asperger syndrome or high functioning autism
... Our children with insomnia had higher scores of parent- rated autism-related symptoms, reflected in the higher ASSQ scores, than the children without insomnia. This result resembles the findings of Schreck et al ...
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Psychometric properties of the Autism Spectrum Quotient in both clinical and non clinical samples: Chinese version for mainland China
... In addition, the present study included three different patient groups and a healthy controls (HC) group. The ASD group was made up of 32 individuals (26 males and 6 females; mean age: M = 19.41, SD = 3.88) with ...
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Asperger syndrome and anxiety disorders (PAsSA) treatment trial: a study protocol of a pilot, multicentre, single-blind, randomised crossover trial of group cognitive behavioural therapy
... AS, high functioning autism or perva- sive developmental disorder not speci fi ed; (2) participants have clinically signi fi cant dif fi culties with anxiety as con fi rmed through the use of the ...
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Genetic variation in GABRB3 is associated with Asperger syndrome and multiple endophenotypes relevant to autism
... across two or more traits, the experiments were not completely independent as several individuals participated in two or more experiments. Additionally, the low variance in the phenotypic scores of EFT must be taken into ...
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Behavioral, Cognitive and Neural Markers of Asperger Syndrome
... keywords: Asperger, Autism spectrum disorder, high functioning autism, MRI, fMRI, behavior, cognition, and neural ...to Asperger studies were also ...
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Counselling people labelled with asperger syndrome
... understanding. Asperger Syndrome is one of the 'conditions' that come within the umbrella title of the autism ...Whether Asperger Syndrome is distinct from 'High ...
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Stress and health related quality of life in mothers seeking a diagnosis of high functioning autism for their child: A mixed methods investigation
... to autism spectrum ...with autism (Akshoomoff, Corsello and Schmidt, 2006, Gray, 2002a, Wiggins, Baio and Rice, ...the autism spectrum and three of the four mothers interviewed talked about how they ...
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Young people with high-functioning autism and Asperger's syndrome planning for and anticipating the move to college : what supports a positive transition?
... 6 the social aspects of college life (Beardon et al., 2009). A lack of awareness and understanding of autism spectrum conditions (ASC) among staff and students emerges as a common experience. The absence of ASC ...
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Review Article Less fixation on the eyes is associated with severe social disability in individuals with autism spectrum disorder
... of high- or low-functioning autism disorder, Asperger’s syndrome or pervasive developmen- tal disorder; (2) an eye-tracking experiment was performed to measure facial processing and response ...
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The relationship of Asperger’s syndrome to autism: a preliminary EEG coherence study
... to high functioning autism (HFA) and the ‘ Asperger’s Syndrome’ name has been dropped ...severe autism, who have significantly impaired language and/or inter- action capacities, under ...
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Reputation Management and the ‘Observer Effect’ in Persons with High Functioning Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome
... included autism as a distinct diagnostic category and to quote Kanner (1971, ...‘infantile autism’ achieved the status of an ‘illness’ in its own right, having the ‘triad of impairments’ of delayed language ...
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Pathways to a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder in Germany: a survey of parents
... (childhood autism, atypical autism, Asperger syndrome), intellectual functioning (no intellectual dis- abilities, intellectual disabilities), ADOS-2 comparison score (minimal till low, ...
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Constrained spherical deconvolution-based tractography and tract-based spatial statistics show abnormal microstructural organization in Asperger syndrome
... the Autism Diagnostic Interview-Revised (ADI-R) and Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule ...for high-functioning individuals with ASD, and in addition, all subjects were thoroughly screened ...
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