BRIEF REPORT - BIOLOGICAL FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH ASPERGER SYNDROME

These families have a developing boy with a severe handicap in social relationships and adapting to educational systems, despite intelligence measured in the average range. Most of their families, aided by strong commitment, perseverance, and the will and wit to help their child adapt, achieve remarkable results in bringing up these children. We have seen their parents criticized, their persecution at the hands of schoolchildren, the application of simple remedies by educators on small acquaintance, and their humiliations and rejections from the misunderstanding of their disability. Public knowledge of the syndrome with a realistic image will be highly beneficial to the children and their families. © 1991 Plenum Publishing Corporation.