My son was born 15 weeks early, weighed 2 pounds and was in the hospital for 82 days. He was on steroids, antibiotics, antivirals, caffeine, TPN, several blood transfusions, was jaundice and had surfactant for his lungs, and was exposed to chicken pox. Lets' see...anything else?
IMO...I think his language difficulty was from the hospital, I think the AS came from his genes and are 2 completely separate issues.