How does the diagnosis of Asperger differ from Autism?
Although there are commonalties between the two, differences exist primarily in the degree of impairment. The degree of impairment is more severe in social interaction, communication, and range of interests and activities in children with autism compared to children with Asperger. For example an individual with autism may experience a delay in, or total lack of speech, and individual with Asperger can not possess a clinical delay in language. An individual with Asperger may experience difficulty in understanding irony, humor or other abstract parts of language.
