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Jetson
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19 Nov 2005, 2:25 am

clever_name wrote:
How can you have AS and have a lower than average IQ, when I it says people with AS have average to high IQ's?

If *it* says that then *it* is wrong (whatever *it* is). The diagnostic criteria for autism and AS are not divided based on IQ. The main distinction (for children) seems to be the age at which the develop speech (or non-verbal communication skills) and whether or not they engage in symbolic or imaginative play. It's hard for someone who is non-communicative to display a high IQ since they are not likely to respond to testing. That doesn't automatically mean that someone who is communicative will have a high IQ.


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19 Nov 2005, 3:11 am

I know its a possibility to be a visual thinker and score low on an IQ test, but that doesnt mean they have a low IQ at whatever there thinking style is.

Then wy do they do an IQ test in the Diagnosis?

If there IQ doesnt matter, there is no point of having an IQ test in the diagnostic process.




I certainly have seen more web sights saying people with aspergers have an average to above average IQ.