Essays on Asperger Syndrome

If you asked me about the kind of relationship I share with my siblings, you would get an account of a very uncommon relationship between two brothers. I have one brother, three years older than me. He is Russian and was adopted by my parents when he was eleven months old. Due to some unfortunate incidents in his early life, he suffered from Asperger syndrome and ADHD. Being diagnosed with it earlier in life, my parents were prepared with how to deal with him, but I, being the younger sibling found it difficult to adjust to him. Asperger syndrome ...

Asperger syndrome (AS) is a disorder on the autism spectrum but unlike autism, the affected individuals tend to have average or above average intelligence. The affected individuals while they may not exhibit visible signs and symptoms of the syndrome, they do display social challenges which are divided into three spheres often called the "triad of impairments." They include social communication, social interaction, and social imagination. (The National Autistic Society). These children may also have other disorders associated with autism such as dyslexia and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder making it difficult for them to learn and pay attention in a ...

Introduction

Anxiety and Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are two closely related disorder that affect children and youth between the ages of 1 and 14 years. The condition has been prevailing among many minority groups in the Australia and currently it affects the majority groups. The Australian Bureau of Statistics recorded an estimate of 115, 500 of Australians, which represents 0.5 percent of the total population, had autism in 2012. The number recorded a 79 percent increase from statistics collected in 2009. The age of the victim determines ASD prevalence with high cases affecting children between ages of 5 to 9 ...

Executive Summary

“Be Different: My Adventures with Asperger's and My Advice for Fellow Aspergians, Misfits, Families, and Teachers”, is written by John Elder Robison. This is a bestselling memoir of the author, who was born with Asperger, when there was no mechanism to diagnose this condition. By that time he got to know about this condition, he had developed some unique strategies to deal with this condition. He identified his strengths and turned them into opportunities for himself. This book is unique in a way because it has been developed with a positive thought. It does not consider this syndrome as a burden, but recognizes ...

Theory of mind is a phrase that was introduced by woodruff and Premack. The two carried some experimental to demonstrate that higher mental capacities are possible in nonhuman primates. Their initial experiment triggered other researchers to carry extensive research on ToM. Through these researches a number of definitions for Tom have been arrived. One such definition states that the theory of mind is the ability to conceptualize, to represent and to reason about the mental states. The theory of mind is simply the ability of an individual to inference what others may be feeling or thinking, and to predict their actions ...

Classroom Management Strategies for Children involved in bully/victim conflicts disorder

Considering the fact that the school environment ought to be conducive for children’s better performance, all hindrances preventing that objective should be eliminated. Children with disabilities are more prone to such acts within the school environment; nevertheless, there are various strategies that would be implemented to ensure they are disregarded. One of the strategies that would help in the management of such children would be social skills training (Baker & Myles, 2003). Taking into consideration that children that are opt to such activities have problems and difficulties in relating to other students, social skills training would be applied by ...

Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) refer to a group of several neurodevelopment syndromes that havedisorders having a poorly understood etiology. Mental The term ASD has been used by several mental health professionals use the term ASD to represent not only classic autism but also Asperger syndrome, Rett syndrome, CDD and PDD-NOS (NHS 2012)—disorders that refer to syndromes that share the same impairments (Romero-Munguia 2013).HYPERLINK "http://en.plagiarismdetect.com/plagiarism/index/8c2ae26f5e9428176d21bb1f0bea960009307af6/25242?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ablockabove.com%2Fwhy-fluency" \t "_blank"Romero-Munguia 2013). These are autistic disorder, Asperger syndrome (AS), and pervasive developmental disorder – not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS), also known as atypical autism (NHS 2012). ASD is characterized by developmental ...

Definition

Neurodevelopmental disorders are defined as impairments of the development and growth of the central nervous system or the brain (Reynolds and Goldstein, 1999 p.3). Neurodevelopmental disorders affect the brain’s function that deals with memory, the learning ability and emotions, and they become more intense as the individual grows (Reynolds and Goldstein, 1999 p. 4-8). Autism is considered a neurodevelopmental disorder distinguished by a range of impairments, including problems with communication (verbal and non-verbal) and any social interaction as well as behavioral problems (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). Individuals with autism find it difficult to process information, mainly due to changes in ...

Abstract

The field of psychology continues to offer several means of measuring empathy different from the traditionally known empathy measurement styles. Empathy has a relationship with age and autistic spectrum trait of an individual. The research aimed at determining the different AQ scores for adults between 19 and 70 years of age. In addition, the relationship between age and AQ and empathy measurement was investigated. The research used mixed methodology research design where interviews, questionnaires, and surveys were conducted. In addition, the Adult Autism Spectrum Quotient (AQ) was used to test autistic like-traits among participants. The research results indicated that the ...

Autism spectrum disorders, abbreviated ASDs refer to a group of disabilities that occur during development causing a significant communication, social and behavioral challenges. People suffering from ASDs manage information in the brain in a different way than how other people manage the information (Lord, Cook, Leventhal, & Amaral, 2000). The ASDs are classified into three different types of autistic disorder, Asperger syndrome and pervasive development disorder. The autistic disorder is the most common and most people relate the word autism with this disorder. People having the disorder in most cases have delays in language, communication and social challenges as well as unusual ...

Asperger’s Syndrome Case Study

AO is a two-year-old boy who resides with both parents. He is the last child in a family of three, having two elder sisters. AO's mother had been sick for about 5 months when she was pregnant with him. The labor was adversely uneventful. He appeared to have a good sucking reflex. during infancy, her mother switched from breastfeeding to bottle feeding when he was about 6 weeks old and many brands of infant formula was tried out because he seemed to vomit excessively. AO began walking at the age of 1 year. He is awkward when walking and tends to bump ...

Aspeprger’s Syndrome: a literature review

The article entitled Conversational behaviour of children with Asperger Syndrome and conduct disorder carried out by Catherine Adams et al. (2002) discusses how communication is one of the greatest issues facing children with Asperger Syndrome as well as those around them such as their family and teachers. The study’s rationale discusses how Asperger Syndrome has evolved with time due to our understanding of it and how originally, it was seen as being a personality deviation in late childhood and adolescence “marked by social gaucheness, clumsiness and eccentric interests” (Adams et al, 2002, p679). When compared with our understanding of ...

Book review: Asperger syndrome and adolescence

Bolick in her book, Asperger syndrome and adolescence, discusses the various challenges that the teenagers especially students experience during adolescence. Her main focus is on to the teenagers who suffer from Asperger syndrome and as well as sustain through the changes of puberty in the institutional environment. In most teenagers, Aspies begin to take more control of their personality traits in the period of adolescence (Bolick, 2004). The teenagers affected by this syndrome will desire social interactions and yet feel secluded than ever. This is for the main reason that the teenagers experience mood swings caused by the quick, ...