Adults with AS

Diagnositic Rating Scales
http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/DX_scales.html

Asperger's Clinicians List
The page states: "This is a list of clinicians who stated that they are familiar with Asperger's Disorder and willing to evaluate children and/or adults...."
http://www.aspergers.com/asplist.htm

Clinicians
http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/clinicians.html

ADULT VERSION
Australian Scale for Asperger Syndrome
Garnett and Attwood, 1995 (original authors)
DRAFT VERSION
Modified and Copyright © Roger N. Meyer, 2000
http://www.aspires-relationships.com...ale_for_as.htm

Asperger syndrome from childhood into adulthood
Advances in Psychiatric Treatment (2004) 10: 341-351
© 2004 The Royal College of Psychiatrists
http://apt.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/10/5/341

Presentation [of AS] in Adulthood
http://apt.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/10/5/341#SEC4

Diagnosis and Assessment
http://apt.rcpsych.org/cgi/content/full/10/5/341#SEC6


Being Told or Being Told Off: Reciprocity at the Diagnostic Interview
Michelle Dawson 2004
http://www.sentex.net/~nexus23/naa_bto.html

"Author’s explanation: this work was commissioned as a chapter in a book about diagnosis, disclosure, and related topics re Asperger syndrome. I was invited to participate even though my diagnosis is not Asperger's. My assignment was to expound on how to break the diagnosis to the diagnosed...."

For anyone on the spectrum, at any age, any level of skills, the first REAL thing I've ever found for not just Vincent, but myself as well.

www.rdiconnect.com

My favorite line from the site was when Dr. Gutstein said, "I wanted the kids in my waiting room to smile because they were happy to see me, not because they were going to get an m&m."

I want my growth and development, and my son's growth and development to be intrinsic, not empty memorized skills. I feel like a mass of empty memorized skills, and can tell you what confusion and depression that leads to trying to live like this. People are meant to get along with and comingle with other people, we are meant to share emotional experiences. If you cannot be successful at that, there is a gaping painful void that grows, and calluses, throughout your life. RDI is the first thing I've ever found, that has made connections that were not previously there.

The only example I can think of at the moment....I've seen those shows where there is a tribe living in a desert, and they are shown how to dig wells and provide themselves with water. The show makes a point of how it's more important for people to know how to provide themselves with the lifegiving water, than to just have it trucked in for them by others. From that, on their own they are able to go in so many directions with various crops and livestock.

RDI, it's kind of like that, you help your child dig the well. Every step he makes in RDI gives you and gives HIM blocks to build on, it's not a memorized skill (trucked in water), it's intrinsic - so it is a part of the childs hardwiring now. Then, the child can BUILD on that, gain more development. Development you didn't even imagine coming.

The other week, we were supposed to go fishing. I forget what Vince did that he knows he is not supposed to, so I said I would not take him fishing. Instead of completely losing it, which I expected, he said this, "It's ok if you say no, it's ok if I don't fish today, I can maybe fish tomorrow, or in two days or in two years"

Ok, so his sense of time is a little off, but WOW, the fact that I knew he was able to be flexible and adjust and realize a tomorrow would come - for him not to get stuck in the now. That was really cause for celebration!

Well, that's the webite I recommend, it's hard for me to explain all the reasons why.

Mili

http://www.webpediatrics.com/autism2.html

http://www.autismtoday.com/

www.geocities.com/keggy11789

... when I was able to recover the following sites I had posted before ...

Adult AS - potentially helpful sites

I like each of the following for a variety of reasons:

A Credo for Support
http://www.normemma.com/credo/remote.htm
http://www.normemma.com/credopos.htm
(located via ASPIRES - http://www.aspires-relationships.com)

Soul's Self-Help Central
AS by an Aspie Adult for Aspie Adults
http://www.soulselfhelp.on.ca/aspergersmain.html

Anthony's Group
http://groups.msn.com/AnthonysGroup
(adults w/AS ... on the AS spectrum)

KJP's Asperger's Syndrome Site
http://www.angelfire.com/amiga/aut/

AS
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Flats/6543/

Einstein and Newton 'had autism'
Albert Einstein and Isaac Newton may have suffered from a type of autism, according to experts.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/2988647.stm

BEING DIFFERENT- LIFE WITH ASPERGER'S
http://www.bbc.co.uk/insideout/east/...s_autism.shtml

University Students With Autism And Asperger's Syndrome
http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~cns/

The Oak Manifesto
http://www.autistics.org/library/theoakmanifesto.html

Aspies for Freedom (AFF)
http://aspiesforfreedom.org/

Ooops... Wrong Planet! Syndrome
http://www.isn.net/~jypsy/index.html

Crossing the Bridge
http://www.starfishpress.com/products/bridge.html
"Crossing the Bridge presents Asperger Syndrome through the eyes of Dr. Liane Holliday Willey, an adult diagnosed with the disorder...."

Aspergia and Asperger's
http://www.aspergia.com/

AS
http://www.baltimorepsych.com/aspergers.htm
(young children to adults)

Dilemma's Asperger pages
http://www.aspergercounselling.net

National Autistic Society (UK)
http://www.nas.org.uk
"....This site includes information about autism and Asperger syndrome, and about support and services available in the UK..."

Autism, Dating and Socialization
http://www.scn.org/people/autistics/relationships.html
"....Dating is a threshold issue for people with Asperger's syndrome and or that matter all autistics...."

The Geek Syndrome:
Autism - and its milder cousin Asperger's syndrome - is surging among the children of Silicon Valley. Are math-and-tech genes to blame?
(December 2001, "Wired News")
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aspergers.html

Becoming Real by Nancy Mandell
http://www.aspergerinfo.org/becoming_real. htm

http://www.autismdiva.blogspot.com

I keep my eye on this one, as the hostess is diagnosed as a spectrum person, lots of spectrum adults post, and they have great links to real science (the need to know stuff) and real bogus stuff (the kind of things that parents of spectrum kids should stay away from).

Kim

Well, since we all have to eat...

I enjoy www.recipesource.com and they do have gfcf recipies...although if you dabble with things like plantains and polenta and things that you can find in any store, you can find lots of gfcf recipies that weren't even intentionally written to be gfcf, they just are. Great salsa recipies with corn chips for snacking. Our staple around here all winter is collard greens with smoked ham hocks and cornbread, another accidentally gfcf meal plan.

Then, I just found this http://recipehut.homestead.com/all_recipes.html trying to see how I could make home made gyros and especially that cucumber sauce I love...which I did find on that site right here http://recipehut.homestead.com/GyroMeatLoaf.html - they tell you how to make the meat, sauce, the whole shot. If gfcf, you could use soy yogurt for the cucumber sauce, either skip the bread or use rice or cornbread - do they make gf pita?

And nope, if anyone's wondering, I don't do gfcf anymore thank gosh! But I still tend to think in gfcf, ya know?

Enjoy!

http://www.doaj.org/

Sensory Integration

By Laurel A. Hoekman

http://www.thegraycenter.org/sensoryinfo.cfm

I *LOVE* blogs

I've found a wonderful one that's all about being the wife to a new legislator, running a scrapbooking business and, BEST OF ALL, being a Mom to a wonderful little boy named 'Simon':

http://www.aliedwards.typepad.com/

Barb

I've gotten interested in learning more about autism. I've found these to be useful:

Autism Bloggers

Barb