Asperger Syndrome is the name given to a range of developmental disorders that sit on the spectrum of Autistic disorders. Autistic disorders are thought to affect around 1% of people in the UK in some form, and typically become apparent in childhood, staying with a person into adulthood. Those who have autism  suffer from a

What is Asperger syndrome? More than half a million people in the UK have an autistic spectrum disorder and Asperger syndrome is a form of autism. It is named after Hans Asperger – an Austrian paediatrician who published an article in 1944 describing children whose symptoms were typical in their verbal and cognitive skills. People