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• Asperger’s syndrome
• Asperger’s syndrome
How is this diagnosed?
Characteristics
Treatment Options
Because Asperger's syndrome varies widely in severity and signs, making a diagnosis can be difficult. If your child shows some signs of Asperger's syndrome, your doctor may suggest a comprehensive assessment by a team of professionals.
Susceptibility to distraction
Difficulty in expressing emotions
Mental shutdown response to conflicting demands and multi-tasking
Generalized confusion during periods of stress
Low understanding of the reciprocal rules of conversation: interrupting, dominating, minimum participation, difficult in shifting topics, problem with initiating or terminating conversation, subject perseveration
Insensitivity to the non-verbal cues of others
There is no treatment for this disorder but there are diiferent types of therapy:
Communication and social skills training: be able to learn the unwritten rules of socialization and communication when taught in an explicit and rote fashion, much like the way students learn foreign languages.
Cognitive behavioral therapy: Cognitive behavioral therapy usually focuses on training a child to recognize a troublesome situation.
How could this impact the Family?
Effective strategies
How could this impact School?
- Have one on one time with the student so they can understand.
- Make sure you explain everything to a full understanding.
- Keep their parents in the tloop to help in with his homework and at home in general.
- They will have to make sure to teach him social ways.
- They will have to inform people about the child and their ways.
- It will be difficult to tell other family members about the diagnosis.
- Students will have to learn to accept him.
- Students will have to learn how to handle/talk the the child
- There would be a para that would be around the child to help
- The teacher would have to give individual time to the student.