This study dealt with the language disorder of main character in "Please Stand By" movie. The aims this were to describe symptoms and types who suffered from Asperger Syndrome. descriptive qualitative method was used supported by psycholinguistic approach using Carrol's theory describing faced found out that movie experienced two first social communication interaction second one restricted, rep...

Effective techniques for social pragmatic development for adolescents with Asperger syndrome have been elusive in the existing body of research literature. Attempts to structure interventions that lead to effective generalization of skills beyond the clinical setting have been particularly inconclusive. This paper outlines the development of a novel theoretically-based, affectively-driven inter...

BACKGROUND There is a growing interest in using cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) with people who have Asperger syndrome and comorbid mental health problems. AIMS To examine whether modified group CBT for clinically significant anxiety in an Asperger syndrome population is feasible and likely to be efficacious. METHOD Using a randomised assessor-blind trial, 52 individuals with Asperger s...

Leo Kanner, an Austrian born American psychiatrist first described autism in 1943 152. His observations of a small group of children with behavioral symptoms of social withdrawal, impaired language/communication and obsession with sameness led to recognition of autism as a specific pervasive developmental disorder. At about the same time Austrian psychiatrist Hans Asperger independently describ...

Previous eye tracking research on the allocation of attention to social information by individuals with autism spectrum disorders is equivocal and may be in part a consequence of variation in stimuli used between studies. The current study explored attention allocation to faces, and within faces, by individuals with Asperger syndrome using a range of static stimuli where faces were either viewe...

Corresponding author: Ali Sheikhani, PhD and member of Biomedical Engineering Faculty, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research branch-Tehran-Iran. Email:[email protected] Objective: To obtain abnormalities in quantitative Electroencephalography (QEEG) and to observe connectivity between electrodes in children with Asperger disorder. Method: In this study, spectrogram criteria a...

Computer-mediated communication in individuals with Asperger syndrome, Tourette syndrome and normal controls was explored with a program called Bubble Dialogue (Gray, Creighton, McMahon, and Cunninghamn (1991)) in which the users type text into speech bubbles. Two scenarios, based on Happé (1994) were adapted to investigate understanding of figure of speech and sarcasm, and a third, developed b...

I read with interest the brief report by Ghaziuddin, Tsai, and Ghaziuddin (1992) in this journal referring to clumsiness in Asperger syndrome. The authors of that report cited a study from our center (Gillberg, 1989) and built some of their arguments around that citation. The authors cannot have read the paper they quote. They say that in the Gillberg (1989) study "a cutoff score of 15 and abov...