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Posts Tagged ‘Asperger’s syndrome’

The early childhood autism, Kanner’s syndrome and, most striking feature in addition to the behavioral abnormalities: due to the early occurrence of severely impaired speech, motor impairment only other disabilities, often hindered spiritually. Depending on the intellectual capacity of early childhood autism is further subdivided in Low, Intermediate and High Functioning Autism (LFA, IFA and HFA). As LFA in the English area of early childhood autism associated with mental retardation, referred to as HFA those with normal or above-average intelligence level. The distinction between HFA and Asperger’s syndrome following is not clear why the terms are sometimes also used synonymously.