Guest guest Posted February 5, 2000 Report Share Posted February 5, 2000 Regarding the URL for the recent Asperger's article: several publishers are making their science articles available online. Usually, however, a person wanting to download the article has to pay for the article or be staff/faculty at a major med institution that subscribes to the journal offering the article. Interlibrary loan is one way to get the article. Another probably is to visit the publisher's home page and make an inquiry. Also, there are a number of books about Asperger's, many in the under-$30 range. Also, there is a major Asperger's website run by Barb Kirby. Even Yale Univ uses her website to present info about Asperger's. http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/frame1.html Here are some of the titles from http://www.amazon.com Asperger Syndrome : A Guide for Educators and Parents ~ Usually ships in 24 hours L. Simpson, Myles / Paperback / Published 1997 Our Price: $39.80 Asperger Syndrome : A Practical Guide for Teachers (Resource Materials for Teachers) ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Val Cumine, et al / Paperback / Published 1998 Our Price: $24.95 Asperger Syndrome and Difficult Moments: Practical Solutions for Tantrums, Rage, and Meltdowns ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Myles, Jack Southwick / Paperback Our Price: $19.95 Asperger's Syndrome : A Guide for Parents and Professionals ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Tony Attwood, Lorna Wing (Preface) / Paperback / Published 1997 Our Price: $18.95 Children With Autism and Asperger Syndrome : A Guide for Practitioners and Carers ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Howlin / Paperback / Published 1999 Our Price: $38.50 Pretending to Be Normal : Living With Asperger's Syndrome ~ Usually ships in 24 hours Liane Holliday Willey / Paperback / Published 1999 Our Price: $15.16 ~ You Save: $3.79 (20%) This Is Asperger Syndrome Gagnon, et al / Paperback / Published 1999 Our Price: $12.95 A listmate had inquired: > I am very interested in neurology, Asperger's (I 'm an elementary counselor > who works with children who are diagnosed and some who I suspect are in the > ASD range and not diagnosed)... > > Is there a way I can get a password to read more at the website you sent? http://www3.oup.co.uk/neucas/hdb/Volume_05/Issue_06/050475.sgm.abs.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 18, 2001 Report Share Posted July 18, 2001 http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/Dr/GMA010712Aspergers_syndrome.htm l Poker-Faced Kids Disorder Renders Sufferers Emotionless July 12 - Asa Varrette does not look disabled, but the 7-year-old is profoundly different from other children. He writes stories - and that's about it. The young boy does not want to watch TV, eat food or play with toys, and he expresses no emotion or enthusiasm, unless it is connected to his stories. " I'm going to add to the words as much as I add to the pictures, " he said, while working on one story. He will often stay up late into the night writing, and completes about one book a day. Asa is not alone in his fixation. ABCNEWS' Dr. Tim met another boy whose focus is strictly on appliances, and another who concentrates on trains 24 hours a day. And yet another child obsesses over game shows. These children have a newly identified form of autism called Asperger's Syndrome, which was first identified about five years ago. An estimated one in 300 boys suffer from it, to varying degrees. Can Only Process Abstract Asperger's Syndrome is a brain disorder in which sufferers are able to process only abstract objects, not people or emotion. Asa is now consumed with the idea of making his stories into animated movies. As a baby, Asa seemed intellectually gifted. At only 8 months old, he could recognize letters of the alphabet. And his father, Philip Jimenez-Snyder, remembers that at age 1, Asa was unusually interested in street signs. " He would stop and I would have to stand there - sometimes for 20 minutes, while he pointed to each letter and you know, name each letter, " Snyder said. " We thought he was just really bright, until the whole playground [age] started when you first bring your child and they are old enough to start interacting and they just don't, " said Lise Varrette, the boy's mother. Smart, but Socially Clueless Dr. Fred Volkmar, a child psychiatrist and head of Yale University's Child Studies Center, helped put Asperger's Syndrome on the psychiatric map less than 10 years ago. He tried to sum up the nature of the disorder and its impact in a short sentence. " I would say [these are] children with amazingly good verbal skills who socially are essentially totally clueless, " Volkmar said. " And every time you try to have a conversation with them the topic inevitably will come back to their area of special interest. " Asa was energetic and seemed sociable as long as he was talking about the characters in his book. " It really has to look like it's not made of paper, " Asa said, describing his drawing of one of the characters in his book. " I want him to be as tall as me in the movie. " But when tried to ask him about his school, Asa fell silent and released a big sigh. Therapists are groping for ways to help Asperger's kids. Asa has attended a program run by the New York League for Early Learning for the last two years. Academics are not a problem, but the boys in his program struggle to learn the basic social rules of life, such as how to look at people's faces and how to listen when they talk. Alone in a Crowd Even with constant support, Asa has problems in group activities. As a group of kids danced, he stood alone and still. At Yale, Volkmar and his team of researchers are trying to unscramble the brains of children like Asa. " When they look at faces the part of the brain they use to look at faces is the part of the brain that the rest of us use to look at objects, " Volkmar said. In the area of the brain used to process faces and emotion, the Asperger's patient's brain shows no activity at all. At Yale, doctors ran an experiment in which a child with Asperger's looked at an emotional movie scene, as the small camera he wore tracked his eye movements. The child's eyes went exclusively to the speaker's mouth, obviously making it difficult to interpret the meaning of the scene. As for Asa, two years of daily work have made it possible, for the first time, for an ordinary miracle in his life: he has a friend. Additional Asperger's Syndrome Resources The following are suggestions of research material from parents of children with Asperger's who participated in a recent Primetime report. Suggested Reading Material: Asperger Syndrome: A Guide for Parents and Professionals, by Tony Attwood Asperger Syndrome, edited by Ami Klin, Fred Volkmar and Sara Sparrow Eating an Artichoke, by Echo Fling Pretending to be Normal, by Liane Willey Asperger's Huh? - book for children How to be a Parapro, by Diane Twachtman-Cullen - for schools, teachers, aides,etc. Web Sites on Learning Disabilities: Learning Disabilities Association, www.ldanatl.org LD Online, www.ldonline.org Non-verbal Learning Disabilities Online, www.nldline.com All Kinds of Minds, www.allkindsofminds.org Special Education Law Information Web sites 's Law, www.wrightslaw.com Special Education Legal Rights Strategies & Resources ( 's Site), www.reedmartin.com IDEA Practices - contains specific information pertaining to the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, www.ideapractices.org Council of Parent Attorneys & Advocates, www.copaa.net Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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