SST Mind Machine for the Treatment
of Asperger's Disorder

Weekly use of Synaptic Stimulus Trainer (SST) device in a clinical setting has been found to be useful in decreasing some of the accompanying symptoms of Asperger’s Disorder.

Clinical Use of the SST has suggested the following results:

• Decrease in the symptoms of anxiety
• Decrease in the symptoms of depression
• Increased verbalization and spontaneous behaviors
• Improved nonverbal behaviors such as eye contact
• Decreased dependency on “specific” routines and rituals
• Decreased self-stemming or repetitive behaviors and motor mannerisms
• Improved social interaction and social awareness
• Improved academic scored on standardized testing

Please note that other common treatments for Asperger's Disorder usually include individual therapy to assist in the development of communication and social skills.

Behavior modification techniques can help change problem behaviors, such as dominating conversations.

Medication is typically not used to treat Asperger's Disorder, unless other symptoms such as anxiety or depression are present.

Public schools are required by federal law to provide appropriate educational services including testing and assessment for people with Asperger's Disorder.

The SST device is not an approved device or treatment by the American Psychological Association (APA) or the American Medical Association (AMA).

The SST mind machine has clinically demonstrated benefits for the symptoms of Asperger's Disorder and is exclusively available only here at avs-devices.com.

What is Asperger’s Disorder?

Asperger’s Disorder is a developmental disorder in which individuals demonstrate significant difficulties with social interaction. Asperger’s' Disorder belong to the group of disorders called pervasive developmental disorders. Individuals with Asperger's Disorder have some of the same traits of autism, particularly poor social skills, and a preference for sameness and routine. But unlike those with autism, children with Asperger's Disorder usually start to talk around 2 years of age and demonstrate average to above-average intelligence.

The Childhood Symptoms of Asperger's Disorder

The most common symptom of Asperger's Disorder is a significant impairment in social interaction. Parents often first notice the symptoms of Asperger's Disorder when their child begins preschool and must interact with same-age peers.

 Some symptoms include the following:

• Inability to recognize social cues and demonstrate age-appropriate social skills.
• Inability to easily make changes in his or her routines.
• Demonstrates poor or little eye contact.
• Unusual facial expressions or postures.
• Perseveration of a specific or favorite topic.
• Inability to express or demonstrate empathy toward others.
• Demonstrates flat affect and tone when speaking.
• May experience heightened sensitivity and become easily over stimulated by specific sounds, loud noises, bright lights, etc.
• Demonstrates limited interests or may be overly interested in unusual activities.
• Demonstrate delayed motor development. For example, these children often have difficulties with handwriting, balance, and coordination.

The Diagnostic Criteria for Asperger’s Disorder 299.80 Asperger's Disorder According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV), are as follows:

A. Qualitative impairment in social interaction, as manifested by at least two of the following:

1. marked impairment in the use of multiple nonverbal behaviors such as eye-to-eye gaze, facial expression, body postures, and gestures to regulate social  interaction.
2. failure to develop peer relationships appropriate to developmental level.
3. a lack of spontaneous seeking to share enjoyment, interests, or achievements with other people (e.g., by a lack of showing, bringing, or pointing out objects of interest to other people).
4. lack of social or emotional reciprocity.

B. Restricted repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior, interests, and activities, as manifested by at least one of the following:

1. encompassing preoccupation with one or more stereotyped and restricted    patterns of interest that is abnormal either in intensity or focus.
2. apparently inflexible adherence to specific, nonfunctional routines or rituals.
3. stereotyped and repetitive motor mannerisms (e.g., hand or finger flapping or twisting, or complex whole-body movements).
4. persistent preoccupation with parts of objects

C. The disturbance causes clinically significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.

D. There is no clinically significant general delay in language (e.g., single words used by age 2 years, communicative phrases used by age 3 years).

E. There is no clinically significant delay in cognitive development or in the development of age-appropriate self-help skills, adaptive behavior (other than in social interaction), and curiosity about the environment in childhood.

F. Criteria are not met for another specific Pervasive Developmental Disorder or Schizophrenia.

REFERENCE:
American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th ed.) Washington, D.C.: Author.

Other Disorders that May Accompany the Diagnoses of Asperger's Disorder:

• Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Depression
• Generalized Anxiety Disorder
• Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Oppositional Defiant Disorder 

What is the cause of Asperger’s Disorder?

The exact cause of Asperger's Disorder is unknown; however there is evidence that it may be inherited.