29 Marbles: Another interesting site: Asperger's Conversations

09 December 2005

Another interesting site: Asperger's Conversations

It never ceases to amaze me what you can find on the Web, in all areas of interest. Obviously in this blog, the information I find and discuss is related to autism. On that note I'd like to introduce you to Asperger's Conversations: Weekly audio posts by Larry Welkowitz, Ph.D.

I've not had a chance to go through it in detail, but one particularly interesting post to me was a discussion Dr. Welkowitz recorded with his class on the subject Counseling Asperger's and High Functioning Autism: Philosophical Dilemmas:

You be the judge, but I thought that these students (mostly educators, school counselors, and parents) were wary of models that pathologized children with AS/HFA and were moderately skeptical about the role of pharmacology. They were concerned about medication side effects and expressed concerns about superficial understanding of the complexity of these individuals.