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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
ASPERGER SYNDROME
- A DEVELOPMENT DISORDER RELATED TO AUTISM AND CHARACTERIZED BY HIGHER THAN AVERAGE INTELLECTUAL ABILITY COUPLED WITH IMPAIRED SOCIAL SKILLS AND RESTRICTIVE, REPETITIVE PATTERNS OF INTEREST AND ACTIVITIES
SYMPTOMS
- Motor skill delays (clumsy lack-ward)
- Lack of social awareness
- Difficulty making and sustaining friendships
- Stereotypical and repetitive motor patterns such as hand flapping or arm waving
RISK FACTORS
- Asperger syndrome is connected to autism so the causes are similar, the causes are unidentified but believed to be inherited.
PREVENTIONS
- There are no preventions to asperger syndrome. It is something that is inherited and there is nothing you can do.
TREATMENT
- You can not fully cure Asperger Syndrome, but there are things you can do to help assist it.
- Social, behavioral, and/or educational interventions.
- Speech language classes .
- Social skills training programs, including training in the awareness of social cognition.
- Adaptive skills or life- skills training
HOW COULD YOU HELP A FRIEND?
- You can help them practice social interactions, speech, and language.
- You can help them organize note take, assist them while they read and comprehend things.
HOW CAN YOU HELP YOURSELF?
- To help yourself you will have to put yourself in social situations and practice talking and listen to yourself talk (record yourself).
SPECIFIC RESOURCES
- Speech teachers- one on one time
- Communication classes
- Treatment program in California-Shine House
- Mill creek Behavioral Health
SCIENCE
- In your body your genetic genes are exposed to toxics.
- Having trouble during pregnancy can cause parental infections.
STATISTICS
- It is 5 times more common in boys than girls
- It happens in 1 to 68 births it occurs
- 1 out of every 110 children in the U.S. has Asperger Syndrome
- Estimated to effect 2 and 1/2 of every 1,000 children
MYTHS/ FACTS
- People with Asperger Syndrome have normal to above average intelligence but typically have social difficulties.
- Abnormalities in the subtle use of language.
IMPORTANT OR INTERESTING FACTS (FAMOUS PEOPLE)
- Adam Young-multi-instrumental, producer, and the founder of the electronic project.
- Clay Marzo- American professional surfer.
- Daryl Hanna- actress
- Einstein was believed to have Asperger Syndrome
