THE AUTISTIC SPECTRUM
The Condition of the Autism Spectrum (ASC)
Our multidisciplinary team specializes in evaluating the treatment of the Autism Spectrum in children, adolescents, adults and the elderly.
Autism and Asperger's make up the Autistic Spectrum and today they are considered Neuroatypicalities, peculiar ways of being. They describe a functioning with typical characteristics and identifiable through specific diagnostic tests by specialists trained on the subject.
Nowadays we prefer to talk about AUTISTIC SPECTRUM or AUTISMS since this term seems to better represent the infinite possibilities of expression of this condition. In fact, it can range from important levels of severity and severity, to mild levels of expressiveness but no less disabling if not intercepted early.
Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) or, we prefer, Autism Spectrum Conditions (ASC) are a pervasive condition that is present from birth and that accompanies the person throughout his life. Today, however, it is possible, by intervening early, to modify and develop those skills that make it difficult to understand the world, human relationships and the implicit rules of coexistence.
The major diagnostic references are today the DSM5 and the ICD10 and these tools are referred to for the diagnostic aspects, while for the treatment there are the 2011 National Guidelines revisited in 2015.
The diagnostic evaluation of spectrum disorders is not done through instrumental investigations but through the use of specific tests, questionnaires and behavioral observations . For a definition of the diagnosis, reference is made to the criteria set out in the international manuals (ICD10 and DSM5) and using specific tools validated and used internationally, plus other specific evaluation tools in psychology, neuropsychology, educational science, neuropsychomotricity and speech therapy through individualized and personalized intervention packages based on age and type of request.
The diagnosis and treatment of Autism Spectrum Disorders and Asperger's Syndrome of our EMPA THIE GROUP is aimed at CHILDREN, ADOLESCENTS AND ALSO ADULTS .
In particular we carry out:
PSYCHODIAGNOSTIC AND FUNCTIONAL EVALUATIONS FOR AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS: AUTISM AND ASPERGER'S SYNDROME
SPECIFIC EVALUATIONS FOR THE FEMALE PROFILE OF ASPERGER'S SYNDROME
FUNCTIONAL ENABLING TREATMENTS FOR AUTISTIC SPECTRUM DISORDERS
NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL EVALUATIONS AND TRAINING SPECIFIC BY COGNITIVE FUNCTION
AUTISM AND ASPERGER'S SYNDROME ARE NOT A DISEASE BUT OF NEUROATYPICITIES
OR A WAY OF WORKING AMONG THE MANY THAT CHARACTERIZE OUR BEING PEOPLE!
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Without a diagnosis the Asperger person is judged. With a diagnosis the Asperger's person can be supported.
Prof. Tony Attwood
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For me, the benefits of getting a diagnosis far outweighed the downsides. It was like taking off a corset I didn't know I was wearing. I was finally able to breathe.
Maura Campbell
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Diagnostic evaluation for Asperger's is an existential path that allows us to better understand ourselves and find the answers to many questions that have so far remained without a reason.
It is not used to label, but to know and recognize each other.
Dr. Valentina Pasin
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The most difficult thing to understand is that social and cultural evolution pushes each individual to search for their own identity, to ask themselves profound questions to understand themselves and their relationship with the world. Thus it happens that more and more we realize that those categories in which we have caged humanity are not sufficient to contain the diversity, the natural variability that characterizes us.
Fabrizio Acanfora
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Different ... not less.
(Several ... not inferior.)
Prof. Temple Grandin
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If I could snap my fingers and stop being autistic, I wouldn't. Autism is part of who I am.
Prof. Temple Grandin
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If you treat a person as if they are what they should and could be, they will become what they should and could be.
Johann Wolfgang Goete
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The approach we follow, based on behavioral psychology, is increasingly made up of naturalistic interventions, in which the famous table fight is no longer present, not even in America in the ABA centers for young children. Since our attention is aimed at finding the smile and motivation of the child, as the cradle of learning, the naturalness of the environments and the use of tools is valued, in the choice of objectives, working more on the emerging ones.