What is a High Functioning Autistic Disorder?
High-Functioning Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, Semantic Pragmatic Disorder, Attention Deficit Disorder etc. Any thoughts you’d like to Share? Have your say on our Guest Forum! Contrary to popular belief most people within the autistic spectrum are high-functioning individuals of average to high intelligence. All have varying levels of difficulty with instinctive social interaction, perfunctory communication and the processing of nonverbal communication, such as gestures and facial expressions, and sensory inputs, such as background noise and bright lights which many find hard to filter out. The spectrum encompasses a wide range of diagnoses with multiple variables. Collectively they are often called Pervasive Developmental Disorders or PDDs and may be classed as: • High Functioning Autism: HFA is the traditional diagnosis for individuals with severe social interaction and communication deficits. Although the distinction with AS is blurred and indeed AS is often considered a subset of HF
HighFunctioning Autism, Asperger sSyndrome, Semantic Pragmatic disorder, Attention Deficit disorder etc. http://www.phad-fife.org.uk/asd.html Extractions: Have your say on our Guest Forum! Contrary to popular belief most people within the autistic spectrum are high-functioning individuals of average to high intelligence. All have varying levels of difficulty with instinctive social interaction, perfunctory communication and the processing of nonverbal communication, such as gestures and facial expressions, and sensory inputs, such as background noise and bright lights which many find hard to filter out. The spectrum encompasses a wide range of diagnoses with multiple variables. Collectively they are often called Pervasive Developmental Disorders or PDDs and may be classed as: High Functioning Autism HFA is the traditional diagnosis for individuals with severe social interaction and communication deficits. Although the distinction with AS is blurred and indeed AS is often considered a s
