Asperger Syndrome or High-Functioning Autism?: Current Issues in Autism

1 Introduction.- 2 The History of Asperger Syndrome.- 3 Subtyping Pervasive Developmental Disorder: Issues of Validity and Implications for Child Psychiatric Diagnosis.- 4 Differential Diagnosis of Asperger Disorder.- 5 High-Functioning People with Autism and Asperger Syndrome: A Literature Review.- 6 Asperger Syndrome and Nonverbal Learning Disabilities.- 7 Schizoid Personality in Childhood: The Links with Asperger Syndrome, Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, and Elective Mutism.- 8 Neurobiology of Asperger Syndrome: Seven Case Studies and Quantitative Magnetic Resonance Imaging Findings.- 9 Social Stories and Comic Strip Conversations with Students with Asperger Syndrome and High-Functioning Autism.- 10 Language and Communication in High-Functioning Autism and Asperger Syndrome.- 11 Educational Approaches to High-Functioning Autism and Asperger Syndrome.- 12 Assessment and Remediation of Executive Dysfunction in Autism and Asperger Syndrome.- 13 Repetitive Thoughts and Behavior in Pervasive Developmental Disorders: Phenomenology and Pharmacoth Erapy.- 14 Learning Characteristics of Individuals with Asperger Syndrome.- 15 A Personal Account of Autism.- 16 An Essay of Faith, Perserverance, and Hard Work.- 17 How Fate Taught Me the Violin.- 18 How the Diagnosis of Asperger’s Has Influenced My Life.- 19 Autistic and Undiagnosed: My Cautionary Tale.- 20 Premature Popularization of Asperger Syndrome.

".....clearly written discussions of diagnosis, phenomenology, and interventions in autistic spectrum disorders..........Fascinating accounts of HFA and AS give some access to the unusual subjective worlds of people affected by these disorders."
(A Journal of Reviews and Commentary in Mental Health, (March 1999)
"This is a book that should be in medical libraries, and on the shelves of many child and adolescent psychiatrics. "
(Canadian Child Psychiatry Review, 10:3 (2001)