Blogger Insung contacted me yesterday to say she liked my blog as she has a high functioning ASD sister, and said she found my stories entertaining.
I took a look at her site, and she has some great resources.
Take a look.
An article from Huffpost Healthy Living says that the scientists have found some differences between autism and Asperger’s, which is a great finding!
Dr. Frank Duffy and his team have found that children with Asperger’s syndrome have different brain connectivity from children with autism by using electroencephalography (EEG). At first, the test showed that children with Asperger’s and with autism were similar by showing weaker connections in the left hemisphere of the brain called the arcuate fasciculus, where involved in language, compared to the typically-developing children.
However, they saw the differences as they more looked into it. Connections between several regions in the left hemisphere were stronger in children with Asperger’s than in both children with autism and typically-developing children.
This explains why children with Asperger’s tend to show language and cognitive development that is closer to that of typically-developing children, while other symptoms like having difficulties with social…
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