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Diagnoza dymensjonalna zespołu Aspergera
Dimensional Diagnosis of the Asperger Syndrome

Author(s): Marta Korendo
Subject(s): Cognitive Psychology, Comparative Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Neuropsychology, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Asperger syndrome; dimensional diagnosis; developmental diagnosis;

Summary/Abstract: Asperger syndrome has been included in the common category of autistic disorders in current medical classifications. In spite of that, there are still some researches allowing us to see the differences in the structure and functioning of the brains of people with autism and Asperger syndrome. Differentiation at the level of diagnosis is important because of the different educational and therapeutic needs of children with autism and AS. This paper presents the concept of dimensional case assessment of children with Asperger syndrome. The dimensional approach allows for viewing the disorder multidimensionally, taking into account the severity of the phenomenon and in connection with other factors, not only other disorders, which significantly reduces the omission of non-prototypical cases in diagnoses and accelerates the use of therapeutic measures. It is necessary because of the low effectiveness of the diagnostic categorical approach

  • Issue Year: 29/2022
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 245-257
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish