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Article: Asperger's Syndrome Symptoms Vary Widely.
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- Pediatric News
- Article date:
- October 1, 2001
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CAMBRIDGE, MASS. -- Asperger's syndrome is difficult to diagnose because symptoms are quite variable, said Dr. Daniel Rosenn, a child and adolescent psychiatrist in private practice in Wellesley, Mass.
Physicians may be hard-pressed to know when or if a child has Asperger's syndrome because "up to age 3 [years] or so, it's not easy to tell--especially if language is developing well," he said at a meeting on behavioral pediatrics sponsored by Boston University.
Asperger's syndrome is increasingly viewed as being at the high end of a continuum from high-functioning autism to severe autism.
"With severe autism, patients look and act the same," ...