| Nutritional Supplements & Information About Asperger Syndrome (AS)
What is Asperger Syndrome?
Asperger Syndrome (AS) is a neurobiological disorder that affects young children with normal intelligence and language development, but who also exhibited autistic-like behaviors and marked deficiencies in social and communication skills.
What are the symptoms?
• Obsessive interest in a single object or topic to the exclusion of any other.
• Children with AS want to know everything about their topic of interest and their conversations with others will be about little else.
• Their expertise, high level of vocabulary, and formal speech patterns make them seem like little professors.
• Repetitive routines or rituals
• Peculiarities in speech and language; socially and emotionally inappropriate behavior and the inability to interact successfully with peers
• Problems with non-verbal communication; and clumsy and uncoordinated motor movements.
• Poor social skills and narrow interests
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