Disorders
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- Recognizing and Managing ADD / ADHD in Children and Adults
- Helpguide offers a set of articles on symptoms, diagnosis, causes, and management of attention deficit disorders. Includes parenting, teaching, medication, self-help, and professional help.
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- ADHD Adults
- Provides links to information about ADHD, resources, and online support groups. Includes author's background and weblog.
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- I Cured Myself of ADD
- How one person modified their personal coping behaviors, misdiagnosed as an attention deficit disorder. Includes tips for targeted and non-targeted behaviors.
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- ADHD Support Group in Chicago's Western Suburbs
- Group meetings in Naperville, IL. Information includes meeting times, location, and directions; group mission; and common symptoms and positive qualities of ADHD.
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- Manhattan Adult ADD Support Group
- Information and links for adults, adolescents and children who have Attention Deficit Disorder/Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
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- AS Partners
- A support group for spouses or partners of people with Asperger Syndrome. Learn about the characteristics which affect personal relationships and family dynamics.
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- Asperger's Conversations
- An audio and text weblog on Asperger's Syndrome maintained by a college professor/psychologist who specializes in this area.
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- Asperger's Syndrome Support Network
- Volunteer-run organisation organizes social and educational activities for families, children, siblings, adults with Asperger's Syndrome, carers and professionals.
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- Aspergian Pride
- Offers advice centered on the idea that Asperger's Syndrome is a special state of mind rather than a disease. Features information, discussion boards, mailing list, and contact details.
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- OASIS: Online Asperger Syndrome Information and Support
- Includes research papers, support groups, clinicians, research projects, educational resources, message board/chatroom, and contributions from individuals and families.
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- OASIS@MAPP
- Includes research papers, support groups, clinicians, research projects, educational resources, message board/chatroom, and contributions from individuals and families.
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- NPR : Autism Movement Seeks Acceptance, Not Cures
- Story about autism self-advocacy groups that push for acceptance of the condition, not "cures". Much of the focus is on people with Asperger's. [12:26 streaming audio broadcast] (June 26, 2006)
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- NPR : Camp Teaches Autistic Children How to Fit In
- A summer camp in Washington, D.C. is teaching some people with mild forms of autism the social skills that come naturally to most people. NPR's Joseph Shapiro reports. [5:29 Realaudio broadcast] (August 16, 2004)
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- NPR : Michael John Carley on Asperger's Syndrome
- Carley is the executive director of GRASP, The Global and Regional Asperger Syndrome Partnership. In 2000, he and his then 4-year-old son were diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. GRASP works to educate the public about the disorder. (May 05, 2004)
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- NPR : Dr. Fred Volkmar on Asperger's Syndrome
- Terry Gross interviews Fred Volkmar. In the early 1990s, Volkmar led the team that helped develop the definition of autism used by the American Psychiatric Assoc. [32:06 streaming audio broadcast] (May 01, 2004)
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- NPR : Children's Book Writer and Illustrator Mark Haddon
- Haddon has written his first novel for adults, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The narrator of the story is an autistic teenager who is obsessed with Sherlock Holmes and who must prove his innocence when a neighborhood dog is killed. Haddon lives in England and teaches creative writing for the Arvon Foundation and for Oxford University. Terry Gross discusses the book with the author. [19:27 Realaudio broadcast] (June 26, 2003)