What We Know Asperger's Syndrome. Many students with Aspergers Syndrome fall through the cracks. These students can be thought of as high-functioning students with autism. It can be hard to discriminate the behavior pattern of a child with Aspergers Syndrome from child throwing a tantrum.
Autism is a neurological disorder.
The autism student's behaviors are symptoms of what going on in the student's brain. Many more students have autism that we thought. Autism seems to occur in clusters. There are multiple children in a family with the disorder. We can also identify autism at an earlier age than was previously thought.