Advocating for spectrumites

About Me

*****Advocating for awareness of strengths and empowerment of people on the spectrum.*****Emphasizing difficulties and apparent treatments, trainings, compensatory strategies, and behavioral alterations for people with high functioning autism and asperger's syndrome*****~~~~~~~~Special training in co-occurring categories:~~~~~~~~ -social skills -the art of nonverbal communication ("reading people and using your own correct nonverbal cues) -Prosody, intonation, and voice treatments -executive function -(PTSD) -ADHD -difficulty multi-tasking or processing -auditory processing -anxiety -difficulty managing emotions -oppositional defiant disorder/conduct disorder~~~~~~~~

My Interests

@@@@This site is intended for advocating, awareness, and networking, NOT treatment.

I'd like to meet:

*****EVERYONE: Clients, general public, people on the spectrum, teachers, social workers, counselors, psychologists, physicians, neurologists, psychiatrists, OTs, PTs, STs, all clinicians.Ask any question. I can answer. Try me?! ;^)

Music:

Gary Numan, musicians on the spectrum

Books:

"The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome" by world renowned expert Dr. Tony Attwood. (Met him in person, by the way)."Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism" by world renowned Dr. Temple Grandin (also of whom I shook hands with in person).

Heroes:

All people who have grown and moved up on the spectrum or took matters into their own hands are my heroes.

My Blog

High functioning Aspies, aspie clinicians and helping profession aspies:

"What I know that you don't, is that many clinicians are on the spectrum, MANY, because aspies are nice and like to help people!" -Dr. Attwood, world renown expert on asperger's. Aspie subtypes...
Posted by Advocating for spectrumites on Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:38:00 PST

Bipolar, ADHD, and other co-occurring labels

The following post has a lot of information. I will sum it up. The first blurp is about differential diagnosis of high functioning autism versus asperger's syndrome. The most simple distinguishing fe...
Posted by Advocating for spectrumites on Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:26:00 PST

How a team can identify Aspergers

From basic clinical experience, here is just an idea of how a team can contribute to identifying Asperger's: Disclaimer: No basic test is going to easily identify Asperger's. On the surface, there is ...
Posted by Advocating for spectrumites on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:33:00 PST

What is Aspergers, exactly?

In Dr. Attwood's simple terms, it is a pattern of unique strengths, talents, and difficulties. He recommends that the best way to diagnose it is with the patient in front of you (and/or their family) ...
Posted by Advocating for spectrumites on Wed, 26 Sep 2007 03:08:00 PST

External memory aids (for people with Aspergers)

Many insurance companies (medicaid, medicare B/private insurances) seem like they won't cover for an external memory aid device (such as a palmtop computer). When I say "seem," this means that I have ...
Posted by Advocating for spectrumites on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 06:58:00 PST

Wikipedia: Culture of Autism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autistic_culture The autistic culture is a culture based around autistic patterns of thought and interests. Adherents of the culture are almost exclusively on the a...
Posted by Advocating for spectrumites on Fri, 14 Sep 2007 11:40:00 PST