2006-10-09 14:48:51 · 8 answers · asked by april_hwth 4 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Other - Diseases
Not finding it on google. Do you mean rain man's disease?
2006-10-09 14:56:56 · answer #1 · answered by spongeworthy_us 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
People with Autism or Aspergers are on a Spectrum - at one end you have high functioning (capable) and at the other end low functioning.
I'm not sure that there is a specific name for severe autism, but it is likely that someone who has severe autism will be at the low functioning end of the spectrum.
2006-10-10 07:56:16 · answer #2 · answered by thebigtombs 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Classic Autism" is sometimes refered to as "Kanner's Autism." Dr. Leo Kanner of the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore reported on 11 child patients with striking behavioral similarities. They tend to be non-verbal, have repetitive movements like rocking & hand flapping & often are clumsy.
"Asperger's" is sometimes refered to as "high-function autism." At the same time Kanner was doing his studies, Dr. Hans Asperger, made similar observations in austria, except the kids he was observing were verbal.
Perhaps you are refering to Rett syndrome. This is a progressive neurological disorder which occurs almost exclusively in girls. The symptoms of this disorder are easily confused with those of cerebral palsy.
Kanner's Autism makes up 12 - 36 % of all the people "on the autism spectrum"
Aspergers makes up 62 - 86% of all the people "on the autism spectrum"
The rest (Rett's, CDC, PDD-NOS) make up less than 3%
2006-10-10 05:55:05 · answer #3 · answered by Smart Kat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you are thinking of leo kanner! it used to be called kanners but as we have learnt more about autism we have realised that it takes many forms and affects people in various ways this is why we no longer refer to kanners syndrome but instead use the autistic spectrum we would call someone with extreme dificulties and autism with prehaps being non verbal ect as low functioning autism somewhere in the middle ould be classic autism and at the higher end of the spectrum we call this aspergers
2006-10-12 02:08:47 · answer #4 · answered by o_kella_uk 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In 1965, Dr. Harry Angelman, an English physician, first described three children with characteristics now known as the Angelman syndrome (AS). He noted that all had a stiff, jerky gait, absent speech, excessive laughter and seizures. Other cases were eventually published but the condition was considered to be extremely rare and many physicians doubted its existence. The first reports from North America appeared in the early 1980s and within the last ten years many new reports have appeared . Dr. Angelman relates the following regarding his discovery of this syndrome.
"The history of medicine is full of interesting stories about the discovery of illnesses. The saga of Angelman's syndrome is one such story. It was purely by chance that nearly thirty years ago three handicapped children were admitted at various times to my children's ward in England. They had a variety of disabilities and although, at first sight, they seemed to be suffering from different conditions, I felt that there was a common cause for their illness. The diagnosis was purely a clinical one because, in spite of technical investigations which today are more refined, I was unable to establish scientific proof that the three children all had the same handicap. In view of this I hesitated to write about them in the medical journals. However, when on holiday in Italy I happened to see an oil painting in the Castelvecchio museum in Verona called . . . a Boy with a Puppet. The boy's laughing face and the fact that my patients exhibited jerky movements gave me the idea of writing an article about the three children with a title of Puppet Children. It was not a name that pleased all parents but it served as a means of combining the three little patients into a single group. Later the name was changed to Angelman syndrome. This article was published in 1965, and after some initial interest, lay almost forgotten until the early eighties."
AS has been reported throughout the world among divergent racial groups. In North America, the great majority of known cases seem to be of Caucasian origin. Although the exact incidence of AS is unknown, an estimate of between 1 in 15,000 to 1 in 30,000 seems reasonable.
2006-10-09 21:51:32 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
there is no name - autism belongs to the "autism spectrum disorder" family. Because it is on a spectrum, no two cases are ever the same.
Asperger's is known as as the opposite of severe.
2006-10-09 14:56:41 · answer #6 · answered by michellepiche 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Asperger's
2006-10-09 14:56:40 · answer #7 · answered by Kim K 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is Aspergers Syndrome.
2006-10-09 14:58:29 · answer #8 · answered by CJBig 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋