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--> ·          If you want a list of books and videos about Aspergers, try: http://www.kandi.org/aspergers/Books_and_Videos/index2.html ·          If you want to buy computer software that helps children with Aspergers, try: http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger   ·          If you want to find a professional clinician in your area, go to:   http://www.aspergers.com/asplist.htm http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger ·          If you want to find a summer camp or boarding school program for kids with Aspergers, try: http://www.talismancamps.com http://www.newleafacademy.com (middle school females) Helpful Websites: ·          A Directory for Aspergers: Support Groups and Organizations http://www.kandi.org/aspergers/index2.html This website is a great place to start your search for local, national and international organizations and support groups as well as to get more information. There are over 200 websites featured here; however, many are more abou

=====> The many patterns of abnormal behavior that cause diagnostic confusion include one originally described by the Austrian psychiatrist, Hans Asperger (1944, 1968, 1979). The name he chose for this pattern was 'autistic psychopathy' using the latter word in the technical sense of an abnormality of personality. This has led to misunderstanding because of the popular tendency to equate psychopathy with sociopathic behavior. For this reason, the neutral term Aspergers is to be preferred and will be used here... Not long before Asperger' s original paper on this subject appeared in 1944, Kanner (1943) published his first account of the disorder he called early infantile autism. The two conditions are, in many ways, similar, and the argument still continues as to whether they are varieties of the same underlying abnormality or are separate entities. Whereas Kanner's work is widely known internationally, Aspergers contribution is considerably less familiar outside