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Case 8 Alfred was brought by his mother in November, 1935 at 3 ½ years of age with this complaint:
“He has gradually shown a marked tendency towards developing one special interest which will completely dominate his day’s activities. He talks of little else while his interests exist, he frets when he is not able to indulge in it (by seeing it, coming in contact with it, drawing pictures of it), and it is difficult to get his attention because of his preoccupation …. There has been the problem of over attachment to the world of objects and failure to develop the usual amount of social awareness”
Alfred, upon entering the office, paid no attention to the examiner. He immediately spotted a train in the toy cabinet, took it out, and connected and disconnected the cars in a slow monotonous manner. He kept saying many times, More train – more train – more train. He repeatedly “counted” the cars windows – “One, two windows – one two windows – four window – eight windows.” He could not in any way be distracted from the trains. A Binet test was attempted in the room in which there were no trains. It was possible with much difficultly to pierce from time to time through his pre-occupations. He finally complied in most instances in a manner that clearly indicated that he wanted to get through with the particular intrusion.; this was repeated with each individual item of the task. In the end he achieved an I,Q. of 140
Leo Kanner
So what is the essential difference between Kanner Syndrome and Asperger Syndrome?
I do not think I got Alfred IQ score but I got a Kanner Syndrome diagnosis when I was 8.
It is because Kanners encompasses the whole spectrum whereas Aspergers usually only donotes cases from average to well above average intelligence? Or could Kanners be an obsolete version of Aspergers not on the list of DSM-IV Codes?
20 Aug 2007, 7:58 pm
