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Article: Aggression Among Children and Youth Who Have Asperger's Syndrome: A Different Population Requiring Different Strategies.
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- Preventing School Failure
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
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Individuals with Asperger's syndrome have significant social and language peculiarities while simultaneously showing normal development and functioning in many areas of their lives. The term Asperger's syndrome dates to 1944, when a Viennese psychiatrist, Hans Asperger, published a seminal paper in which he described a group of children with a unique social disability (Asperger, 1944). The disorder was virtually unknown in the United States until only a few years ago. Today, however, there is a dramatic and accelerating increase in the number of children and youth diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, particularly since the addition of the disorder as a subclassification of ...