Asperger syndrome

✍ Scribed by Ami Klin PhD, MD Fred R. Volkmar MD, Sara S. Sparrow PhD

• Publisher: Guilford Press
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 469
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Usually diagnosed in childhood, Asperger syndrome is a lifelong social disorder characterized by a lack of empathy, little ability to form friendships, one-sided conversations, clumsy movements, and intense absorption in special interests. While Asperger syndrome has received increasing attention from researchers, clinicians, educators, and parents in recent years, numerous central questions about the disorder remain unanswered. This groundbreaking volume brings together preeminent scholars and practitioners to offer a definitive statement of what is currently known about Asperger syndrome and to highlight promising leads in research and clinical practice. Diagnostic and conceptual issues are explored in depth, and the disorder's assessment, treatment, and neurobiology are thoroughly reviewed. The book examines the effects of Asperger syndrome on an individual's social, communication, and behavioral development, and identifies the challenges that individuals with AS face at home, in school and the workplace, and in other settings. The volume concludes with several parent essays that exemplify the trials and tribulations--as well as the joys and the victories--of life with a child with Asperger syndrome.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Diagnostic issues in Asperger syndrome / Fred R. Volkmar, Ami Klin --
Neuropsychological function and external validity of Asperger syndrome / Sally Ozonoff, Elizabeth McMahon Griffith --
Motor functioning in Asperger syndrome / Isabel M. Smith --
Social language use in Asperger syndrome and high-functioning autism / Rebecca Landa --
Does Asperger syndrome aggregate in families? / Susan E. Folstein, Susan L. Santangelo --
Neurofunctional models of autistic disorder and Asperger syndrome : clues from neuroimaging / Robert T. Schultz, Lizabeth M. Romanski, Katherine D. Tsatsanis --Psychopharmacological treatment of higher-functioning pervasive developmental disorders / Andrés Martin, David K. Patzer, Fred R. Volkmar --
Nonverbal learning disabilities and Asperger syndrome / Byron P. Rourke, Katherine D. Tsatsanis --
What's so special about Asperger syndrome? : The need for further exploration of the borderlands of autism / D.V.M. Bishop --
Schizoid personality in childhood and Asperger syndrome / Sula Wolff --
Assessment issues in children and adolescents with Asperger syndrome / Ami Klin [and others] --
Treatment and intervention guidelines for individuals with Asperger syndrome / Ami Klin, Fred R. Volkmar --
Adolescence and adulthood of individuals with Asperger syndrome / Digby Tantam --
Perspectives on the classification of Asperger syndrome / Peter Szatmari --
Past and future of research on Asperger syndrome / Lorna Wing --
Parent essays. Introduction
Walter / Jeanne Wallace
A view from inside / Lori S. Shery
How did we get here? / Linda Rietschel
First advocates / DeAnn Hyatt-Foley, Matthew G. Foley.