‘Autistic Spectrum’ Questions at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist, Page 5

The following questions are related to ‘Autistic Spectrum’ at Ask the Psychologist: Online Clinical Psychologist.

ADHD or Asperger’s Disorder?

By Dr Joseph M Carver, PhD | 11 February 2008

Q: My son is 14 and was diagnosed with ADHD in Kindergarten. He could never sit still and has always been hyperactive and inattentive. I have always felt that something else is going on with him and I have been unsuccessful for all these years at finding out what. He has sensory issues, e.g., he [...]

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Encopresis and Childhood Disorders

By Dr Joseph M Carver, PhD | 3 January 2008

Q: I been tossing around the idea of having my 7-year-old see a psych. He is still using the bathroom on himself and is diagnosed SLD. He was previously diagnosed PDD and now it is SLD. I am an ESE teacher and I teach children with varying exceptionalities, and I have seen a lot of [...]

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Husband is Mimicking My Behavior…Is Something Wrong with Him?

By Dr Joseph M Carver, PhD | 12 December 2007

Q: What do you call a person that does everything someone else does? Like for instance, say I take a shower in the middle of the day my husband will do the same, if I take one in the morning he will do it too. One morning I made some bacon and toast, he did [...]

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Dorm Student with Asperger’s

By Dr Joseph M Carver, PhD | 20 November 2007

Q: I’m a Resident Assistant in a dorm at my university, and I’m in charge of a floor of about sixty girls and guys. One of my male students has unusual personal traits and habits which have made many of his floormates uncomfortable. I think he may have Asperger’s. He speaks in a low, jerky, [...]

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I’ve Realized My Husband Has Asperger’s

By Dr Joseph M Carver, PhD | 30 October 2007

Q: I have decided, after much research and reading seven books in the past two weeks, that the problems in my 32-year marriage to a fellow Ph. D. scientist are due to him having Asperger’s Syndrome. Something clicked.
I have felt all along something was wrong; he is very high-functioning, and basically a good man — [...]

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