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pervasive developmental disorder, asperger syndrome, in asperger syndrome, a young child experiences impaired social interactions, develops limited repetitive patterns of behavior, motor milestones delayed, clumsiness, observed, hans asperger labeled this disorder "autistic psychopathy" in 1944, still unknown, relation to autistic disorder, autism, researchers believe that asperger sydrome, a mild form of autism, child, asperger shows below-average nonverbal communication gestures, fails to develop peer relationships, has an inability to express pleasure in other people's happiness, lacks the ability to reciprocate emotionally in normal social interactions, condition appears to be more common in boys than in girls, likely genetic factors, theories suggest a prenatal infection to blame, asperger syndrome, frequently socially inept, above -average intelligence, excel in fields, computer programming, science, no delay in cognitive development, development of age-appropriate self-help skills, in curiosity, the environment, generally, no language development delay, abnormal nonverbal communication, eye contact, facial expressions, body postures, gestures, failure to develop peer relationships, singled out by other children, "weird", "strange", lack of spontaneous seeking to share enjoyment, interests, achievements, a lack of showing, bringing, pointing out objects of interest to other people, markedly impaired expression of pleasure in other people's happiness, inability to return social, emotional feelings, inflexibilty, specific routines, rituals, repetitive finger flapping, twisting, whole body movements, unusually intense preoccupation, narrow areas of interest, obsession, train schedules, phone books, collections of objects, preoccupation, parts of whole objects, repetitive behaviors, repetitive self-injurious behavior, physical, emotional, mental evaluations, performed to rule out other causes, treatment depends on the patient's level of adaptive functioning, a high iq, bring a better prognosis than a below-average one, patients, severe impairment, treatment is similar, autistic disorder, most developmental disorders, long-term outcome, prognosis, vary according, nature, the underlying problem, interventions, support continued development, provider, child is non-responsive to people, has odd, peculiar speech, exhibits behavior, lead to self-harm.