Additional Aspergers Research

The Asperger’s effect

 

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  Professor Simon Baron Cohen and patient Jon AdamsJohn Angerson

One company hires out people with Asperger’s as technology consultants

We investigate the changing attitudes to autism

First, take the AQ test
Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen and his colleagues at Cambridge’s Autism Research Centre have created the Autism Spectrum Quotient, or AQ, as a measure of the extent of autistic traits in adults. The test is not a means for making a diagnosis, and many who score above 32 and even meet the diagnostic criteria for mild autism or Asperger’s report no difficulty functioning in their everyday lives. A high score on the AQ test is not by itself diagnostic.

Try the AQ Test here: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aqtest.html