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Asperger’s Syndrome

**Description: ** Asperger’s Syndrome is an autism spectrum disorder, and people with it, therefore, show significant difficulties in social interaction. It affects the brain. Asperger’s Syndrome is usually abbreviated as ASD. Usually people who have it are clearly shown to have social problems.

**Inheritance: ** Research supports the likely-hood of a genetic basis; brain imaging techniques have not identified a clear common pathology. It is a subset of the broader autism phenotype, which describes individuals who may not have ASD but do have autistic-like traits, such as social deficits.

**Symptoms: ** Asperger’s Syndrome describes children who lack nonverbal communication skills, demonstrate limited empathy with their peers, and are physically clumsy. Poor communication skills and obsessive repetitive routines are usually shown, also. Not pick up on social cues and may lack inborn social skills, such as being able to read others' body language, start or maintain a conversation, and take turns talking. Dislike any changes in routines. Be unable to recognize subtle differences in speech tone, pitch, and accent that alter the meaning of others’ speech. A child may not understand a joke or may take a sarcastic comment literally. His or her speech may be flat and difficult to understand because it lacks tone, pitch, and accent. Have a formal style of speaking that is advanced for his or her age. For example, the child may use the word "beckon" instead of "call" or the word "return" instead of "come back."

**Daily Life: **

The daily life of someone with Asperger’s Syndrome is mainly them struggling because their social communication is poor, and most children improve as they mature to adulthood, but social and communication difficulties may persist. They might want to be alone from a group of kids at recess rather than playing with other students.

**Diagnosis: ** Brain imaging, tests for cognition, social therapy, stress management, pragmatics, social coordination. Usually they take a series of tests to diagnose, doctors try out certain tests to see how they react to diagnose and how to improve problems seen by parents.

**Treatment: ** There is no single treatment for Asperger’s Syndrome, but training of social skills is more effective, medication, physical therapy, speech therapy, sensory integration, motor coordination and pragmatics usually help. Medications do not directly treat the core symptoms of ASD. There are multiple treatments to help people with Asperger’s Syndrome. There is research being done on ASD by scientists who are still trying to find a cure and if they find one it would be popular.

**Research: ** There is no specific treatment found that eliminates ASD, but there are treatments to help. One study is using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). There are many studies on Asperger’s Syndrome but not a final study that discovered any medications that treat the core symptoms, which is being researched in many states.

**Additional Facts: ** <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Asperger syndrome is a form of neurological disorder named after Viennese physician Hans Asperger, who described a pattern of behaviors in a number of young boys who had average intelligence and language capabilities, yet also exhibited autistic-like behaviors and deficiencies in both social and communication skills. The syndrome has only been recognized by professionals and parents in the past few years. Although there are many possible symptoms of Asperger’s syndrome, the main symptom is severe trouble with social situations. Your child may have mild to severe symptoms or have a few or many of these symptoms. Because of the wide variety of symptoms, no two children with Asperger's are alike. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; margin: 0in 0in 10pt;">