Asperger’s Syndrome

Asperger’s syndrome is a development disorder which is related to autism spectrum disorder. In Asperger’s Syndrome a child behaves in a restricted and repetitive pattern of behaviour and interests. It is commonly found in males and its signs start to appear before the child turns 1 year old.
Asperger’s Syndrome is recognized by repetitive behaviour and body movement, odd use of language, physical clumsiness. A child also finds it difficult to communicate properly because of pedantry in speech.

Asperger’s Syndrome has no cure but several therapies are useful in improving the symptoms related with this disorder.

• Poor communication skills
• Failure to establish friendship with children of same age
• Failure to express emotions
• Making awkward or clumsy body language
• Significant preoccupation and obsession with one or two interests.
• More interested in parts of object rather than the whole object
• Sometimes fascination with numbers and letters

Master A, 3 years old came to the clinic with her mother and 7 years old sister. A is tall for his age, but has poor body language, his arms are loose, his head always tilting and back bone bent towards the front. His mother states that A can’t speak clearly and it becomes difficult to understand sometimes, what he is trying to say, he learned to speak when he was 22 months old. He doesn’t have interest in playing with toys as such, but he often rolls and tangles his sister’s hair and pulls her ears. He while sitting for a meal, frequently takes a spoon and keeps playing with it, until scolded. He has joined preschool recently, where his teachers say that he is low on energy and gave one of his examples; when solving puzzle he got preoccupied with one part of puzzle and had not interest in the whole puzzle. He doesn’t speak much nor have any friends in school. A is diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome, where his speech and behavioural therapy was started, along with some physical exercises to improve his body posture.