>Dana, > >Yes it is a test, pencil & paper, IQ and verbal as well as a couple of other >things.
No its not. Its a description system. There is a wide leeway on the diagnoses involved - glad I took that course on the DSM-IV in grad school, it turned out to be more on how to get insurance to pay for your therapy than anything else. > >Sounds like your school system is the same as ours. Asperger is also know as >higher functioning Autism, and the person I know as a bit of ADHD, asperger >and Autistic behaviour so he is being treated for 3 conditions, which this >test picked up. According to the research I just looked at, it would appear that while the conditions may coexist, they are not necessarily the same or even within the same constellation of symptoms. SPECT imaging (http://www.alasbimnjournal.cl/revistas/4/goldbergi.htm provides a good summary of the neuropsych research) suggests that very different neuological systems are involved. ADHD more involves the frontal and prefrontal lobes of the brain. Which is understandable if you consider that ADHD is in part a problem of control (think how impulsive ADHD kids and adults are). These regions of the brain are involved in control and executive function. Autism and Aspergers Syndrome however involve the temporal, the pareital/occipital regions and the cerebellum vermis regions of the brain. Different circuitry in the brain means different problems all together. Part of the problem is that kids with Aspergers Syndrome or Autism typically have many other problems. Any study sample will be very heterogeneous - very mixed. In many samples you'll also get kids who also have severe ADHD, obsessive compulsive disorder, possible mental retardation, schizophrenia etc. So the problem is for the diagnostician is to look beyond the DSM-IV and look at what the kid is actually doing, their deficits and how to help the kid compensate for those so that they can succeed to the best of their other abilities. > >I did go to a support group a month or so ago and the Dr giving the lecture >joked that Seinfeld is Asperger comedy:-) Not sure about that but it does >seem to fit the bill. > >But you might want to look at the spectrum, it covers so many conditions >that can occur along it that not one person falls into only one of the >categories, well that is what we have been told by Dr's here that specialise >in this area. > >And yes it is very close to me as well. > > >Andrew Scott >Senior Coldfusion Developer >Aegeon Pty. Ltd. >www.aegeon.com.au >Phone: +613 8676 4223 >Mobile: 0404 998 273 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:223058 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
