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Subject: Re: Aspergers and Deafness


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marjory
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Date Posted: 22:16:38 09/12/04 Sun
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In reply to: Sharon 's message, "Aspergers and Deafness" on 21:49:20 10/18/03 Sat

>My daughter has Asperger's and a moderate/serve hearing loss. She is also exceptionally gifed in verbal skills. She got her hearing aids at 2 years and was reading at the level of a 9 year-old at 4 and I brought social problems etc. to the attention to the professionals following her development. Things to watch for are pragmatic and semantic difficulties and how to cope with them in a hearing-impaired child.

Does anyone know anything about both Aspergers Syndrom
>and being deaf. My child is being looked at for
>Aspergers. He is profoundly deaf and wears a cochlear
>implant. He would rather go without the implant as he
>is sound sensitive. I have been searching the internet
>on Aspergers as well as being deaf, but can't seem to
>find any thing on this. I assume it must be pretty
>rare to have both.

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