Can any one give me more information on Aspergers Syndrome, Symptoms etc..?

Question

My four year old son is apparently displaying aspergers symptoms

Answer 1

Symptoms during childhood

Parents often first notice the symptoms of Asperger's syndrome when their child starts preschool and begins to interact with other children. Children with Asperger's syndrome may:

Not pick up on social cues and lack inborn social skills, such as being able to read others' body language, start or maintain a conversation, and take turns talking.

Dislike any changes in routines.

Appear to lack empathy.

Be unable to recognize subtle differences in speech tone, pitch, and accent that alter the meaning of others’ speech. Thus, your child may not understand a joke or may take a sarcastic comment literally. Likewise, his or her speech may be flat and difficult to understand because it lacks tone, pitch, and accent.

Have a formal style of speaking that is advanced for his or her age. For example, the child may use the term “beckon” instead of “call,” or “return” instead of “come back.”

Avoid eye contact.

Have unusual facial expressions or postures.

Be preoccupied with only one or few interests, which he or she may be very knowledgeable about. Many children with Asperger's syndrome are overly interested in parts of a whole or in unusual activities, such as doing intricate jigsaw puzzles, designing houses, drawing highly detailed scenes, or astronomy.2

Talk a lot, usually about a favorite subject. One-sided conversations are common. Internal thoughts are often verbalized.

Have delayed motor development. Your child may be late in learning to use a fork or spoon, ride a bike, or catch a ball. He or she may have an awkward walk. Handwriting is often poor.

Have heightened sensitivity and become overstimulated by loud noises, lights, or strong tastes or textures. For more information about these symptoms, see sensory integration dysfunction.

Although the condition is in some ways similar to autism, a child with Asperger's syndrome typically has normal to advanced language and intellectual development. Also, those with Asperger's syndrome typically make more of an effort than those with autism to make friends and engage in activities with others.

Have your doctor do a checkup and see if this is the problem. I wish you the best.

Answer 2

Someone with Asperger's may keep themselves to themselves and show a lack of social skills. They may be intellectually bright but lacking in basic common sense.

They may have trouble communicating their ideas which will frustrate them.

Aspergers is different in every sufferer but is often overlooked because the person looks 'normal', however, they may have a range of other conditions too like dyslexia, dyspraxia, dyscalcula, ADD etc. These just add to the misery because they may be viewed as lazy and clumsy.

Their teachers may give up on them because the child may have a very short attention span and will be easily distracted. they may put it down to the child being in cloud cuckoo land.

Most Asperger's sufferers are intense people. They may have obsessions that confuse other people. Like, having a line of sweets, with the sweets being an exact distance apart and of course, they can't be touched.

Or, when going shopping, having the compulsion to go down each isle from top to bottom, even if they don't want anything; doubling back or changing isles in the middle being out of the question.

As they get older, they can learn how to behave to appear 'normal' but it can be a strain because they will be going against who they are.

I would reccommend grabbing all help with both hands and having your son statemented is a good thing.

Answer 3

I'd suggest the NAS (National Autistic Society) website http://www.nas.org.uk/. Wikipedia has a page on Asperger's

There are three main features to Asperger's Syndrome, impairment of social communication, impairment of social understanding and impairment of imagination.

The secondary signs may include the following:
Narrow intense interests, I was highly interested in biology, when I was younger, to the extent that at the age of 6 I could understand most of my mother's A-level-equivalent textbook. This developed into reading most of the science section of the children's library.

Most prefer a very ordered, often verging on ritualistic lifestyle and find changes in routine extremely wearing and distressing.

Some have difficulties in processing (and filtering out) sensory information. In a crowded room I hear bits of every conversation within earshot and end up functionally deaf, because I can't ignore the background noise. Many are hypersensitive in some sensory area, I find loud sounds such as fire alarm almost incapacitating painful, (so I bought ear defenders).

Answer 4

poor eye contact ,lack of social skill s,anger ,fear of change,difficulty making friendships etc just google aspergers and get him diagnosed he will be just fine

Answer 5

difficult as im adult with it was always a "weird kid"
lack of eye contact in ability to form friendships poor social skills un able to show emotions always looks away when spoken to cant interact

Answer 6

try this link: www.autism.org.uk and send for their information pack; You will probably find it very useful, I did.