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SophiasMom
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19 Feb 2008, 12:51 am

I could have sworn that I read somewhere recently that up to 40% of aspies experienced early language delays.
I can't find it anywhere now. In fact all I can find is the complete opposite. Was it maybe a Tony Atwood video that I saw? Anyone know anything about this?
Perhaps I dreamt it.



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19 Feb 2008, 2:15 am

SophiasMom wrote:
I could have sworn that I read somewhere recently that up to 40% of aspies experienced early language delays.
I can't find it anywhere now. In fact all I can find is the complete opposite. Was it maybe a Tony Atwood video that I saw? Anyone know anything about this?
Perhaps I dreamt it.

Part of the diagnostic criteria for Asperger's is that there can not have been any language delay.

That said, I am diagnosed Aspie and I had a slight language delay. The DSM diagnostic criteria are flawed, in my opinion.


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19 Feb 2008, 5:58 am

sophias mom,

The DSM says ****NO**** clinically significant language delay. A lot of times, people here said that was THE difference between HFA and AS. The other diffrences have been watered down, relegated as options, or just ignored. That said gillberg says there MUST be a language delay.

ALSO, some people with AS spoke quite early. I did.



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19 Feb 2008, 6:53 am

2ukenkerl,

You're incorrect, Gillberg's includes the possibility of the delay in the acquisition of speech; it happily allows one who develops speech, albeit delayed, to have the AS label as they catch up to their AS peers. It's not needed for a diagnosis.

Here it is (a psycho at Attwood's told me that the "latest" research states that many individuals with AS had delays in the development of spoken language, but they caught up--those who don't catch up are then labeled with autism):

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4.Speech and language problems
(at least three of the following)
(a) delayed development
(b) superficially perfect expressive language
(c) formal, pedantic language
(d) odd prosody, peculiar voice characteristics
(e) impairment of comprehension including misinterpretations of literal/implied meanings


The 40% might have been from Professor Attwood himself that you viewed, as the aforementioned psycho who told me such worked for him.