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Article: Strategies to reduce the bullying of young children with Asperger Syndrome.
- Article from:
- Australian Journal of Early Childhood
- Article date:
- September 1, 2004
- Author:
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Sixty years ago Hans Asperger described a distinct profile of abilities and behaviour in young children that he called autistic personality (Asperger, 1944), but it was in 1981, a year after his death, that Lorna Wing first used the eponymous term Asperger Syndrome to describe children with an intellectual capacity within the normal range, but whose abilities and behaviour are consistent with our understanding of Autistic Spectrum Disorders (Wing, 1981). The current prevailing view is that Asperger Syndrome is not an essentially different disorder from autism, but a variant of autism, and located at the milder end of the spectrum of autistic disorders (Frith, 2004). The ...