new Asperger's tilt test
Jul. 27th, 2004 01:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
celticdragonflyMy mother saw this on a Good Morning America show, and after some searching, finally found a breaking news article on this on the BBC.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3929045.stm new early test for Asperger's
Apparently they've found a new form of early screening that has to do with abnormalities of body movement. The article and the clip on TV said to hold the child around the waist, held out away from you facing outwards, and tilt the child to the side. The head should follow the body in the tilt. If the head stays in line with where the body was, that's a possible sign of trouble.
I'm pleased to say Jamie passed it. (Difficult to hold big heavy Tank Baby that way!)
Admittedly Brendan's autistic, not Aspergers, but they're part of the same spectrum.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3929045.stm new early test for Asperger's
Apparently they've found a new form of early screening that has to do with abnormalities of body movement. The article and the clip on TV said to hold the child around the waist, held out away from you facing outwards, and tilt the child to the side. The head should follow the body in the tilt. If the head stays in line with where the body was, that's a possible sign of trouble.
I'm pleased to say Jamie passed it. (Difficult to hold big heavy Tank Baby that way!)
Admittedly Brendan's autistic, not Aspergers, but they're part of the same spectrum.
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Date: 2004-07-27 11:57 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-07-29 01:21 am (UTC)I don't know if you're still interested in this, since you've already used the test on Jamie, but here's the reference to what might be the actual scientific paper:
Eshkol-Wachman movement notation in diagnosis: The early detection of
Asperger's syndrome
Osnat Teitelbaum, Tom Benton, Prithvi K. Shah, Andrea Prince, Joseph
L. Kelly, and Philip Teitelbaum
PNAS published 28 July 2004, 10.1073/pnas.0403919101
http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0403919101v1?etoc
I regularly scan the tables of contents of scientific journals of interest and the "important" ones as the issues come out, and this was in my email inbox this morning. It sounded like what you had been talking about, so I thought I'd pass on the information.
If you are interested but can't access it (the abstract should be free), I can download the .pdf file and email it to you. Just let me know! :-)