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Index
Index
ABA. See Applied behavioral analysis
(ABA)
Activity preferences and AS, 6, 9–10.
See also Obsessions and preoccupations;
Repetitions; Rituals;
Solitary interests
Aggression, 150–151, 157, 181
Alternative theories of causes, 125–129
Anxiety signals, 32, 38–39, 49, 138
and distraction, 56–57
and language, 54–55
See also Sameness (insistence on)
Applied behavioral analysis (ABA), 139
case example (discrete trial training
form), 142–143
case example (social-communication
therapy form), 143–144
“discrete trial training” form, 139,
140–141
early intervention benefits, 135
peer tutoring (case example), 145–
146
peer tutoring studies, 153
“social-communication therapy”
form, 140, 141
use of forms, 141–142
See also Behaviorally based interventions
AS and high functioning people, 60
categorization controversy, 83
diagnostic challenges, 61–62, 73–74
See also Grandin, Temple
Asperger syndrome (AS), 2, 11, 13
developmental history, 82
differences from autism, 82, 83, 169
identification of, 105
original description of, 82–83
outcomes, 104–105
See also Nonverbal learning disability
Atypical autism. See PDDNOS
Auditory stimuli (responses to) case
examples, 27–29, 51
Autism, 2
and allergies, 125
as an information processing disorder,
169
diagnostic criteria changes, 11–13,
61–62
differences from AS (Asperger
syndrome), 82, 83
mainstreaming (case examples), 110,
149
misconceptions about, 6, 97, 104,
120
outcomes, 104, 105, 108
and protein levels, 125–126
variations in, 6, 105, 182
See also Alternative theories of
causes
204