My wife has been undertaking some research in her position as Co-odrinator of Special Education at her School. She recently had to deal with 12 children who have Autism or Autistic tendencies that have impaired their ability to learn.
So in the course of that research, she found this little Gem, sort of really nailed me with it!!
"ASPERGER SYNDROME
1. severe impairment in reciprocal social interaction, showing in
(a) inability to interact or play reciprocally with age peers.
(b) a lack of normal desire to be in the company of age peers
(c) lack of appreciation of social cues, resulting in odd, socially or emotionally inappropriate behaviour, usually thought to reflect "coldness", "stiffness", "emotional bluntness/immaturity", "egocentricity" or " (unintentional) play acting" (such as in the movies from the early period).
2. And all absorbing, circumscribed interest in a subject, such as meteorology, astronomy or Greek history. This interest may change in content over the years, but it's fundamental style remains in that it goes to extremes, excludes most other activities in is adhered to in a repetitive way and relies on wrote memory rather than meaning and connection.
3. A stereotyped way of trying to introduce and impose routines or the particular interest in all or almost all aspects of ordinary life.
4. Speech and language problems showing as
(a) delayed language development as compared with expected given the child social language background, (b) superficially perfect expressive language with a strong tendency to become formal and the dent and usually with a flat, staccato like prosody, and (c) mild or moderate impairment of language comprehension with concrete misinterpretations of spoken language against a background of much better expressive language skills.
5. Non-verbal communication problems, with limited or clumsy gestures and little or inappropriate facial expression.
6. Motor clumsiness was not a prerequisite for diagnosis of us burger syndrome in previous publications from the centre (Gillberg, 1988 ). However, as it turned out almost all were found to suffer from overall clumsiness on neurodevelopmental examination. We therefore decided to include it in yard diagnostic definition of Asperger syndrome.
No requirements were imposed regarding the persons intellectual level."
So there we go, my wife fitted me into this perfectly………
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