Personal Space, Friendship in Adolescents

By Kirby I Chitwood

Asperger's syndrome (AS) is a pervasive developmental disorder characterized by qualitative impairments in social interactions. Individuals with AS experience difficulty using and interpreting non-verbal communication (e.g., gestures, facial expressions, posture, and eye contact) and understanding nonliteral language and abstractions (e.g., humor, irony, and teasing), display restricted, repetitive, and stereotyped patterns of behavior and interests, and have no clinically significant general delay in language or cognition (American Psychiatric Association APA], 2000; Kasari & Rotheram-Fuller, 2005). Because individuals with AS have average or above average intelligence and look "normal," their atypical social behaviors are rarely understood by those around them and they are often viewed as having "behavior problems" or being "inappropriate" (Church, Alisanski, & Amanullah, 2000, p. 19).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 7982067603
• ISBN13: 9787982067603
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Kirby I. Chitwood
• Length: 108 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"