The Asperger syndrome affects children and adults patients by
modifying their communication skills and making them unable to
interact with the persons around them. The autistic disorder in most
cases associates the lack of communication skills with learning
disabilities.
The Asperger syndrome is an autistic disorder related to autism but
with less symptoms or less serious modifications. The pure autism is
rare, about one case in 5000 children and it occurs four times more
often in male children than in girls. Autistic spectrum disorders are
all conditions implying symptoms related to the manifestations of
autism.
The exact cause of autism cases is still unknown to scientists but
researchers have detected a possible link between the condition and a
genetic factor without any actual pattern of inheritance. Autistic
modifications are blamed on brain damages and abnormal development
before birth, during childbirth or after birth.
The first signs of an autistic disorder appear soon after birth in
severe cases but usually between the age of 3-4 when parents observe
abnormal modifications in the child's behavior. There are three main
symptom groups involved in autism and patients with the Asperger
syndrome have only some of these signs, unlike the children with
actual autism who suffer from disorders from all of the three symptoms
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