Hello,  This is Dave Angel again with the latest on www.ParentingAspergersCommunity.com

Today I am going to tell you a little more about the Department on the site called “More Aspergers Topics” (if you remember from past emails there are 5 main Departments on the new site – Parents Help Corner, Behaviors and Treatments, Helping your Child to Cope with Other People, More Aspergers Topics and Resources).

OK so the “More Aspergers Topics” Department is split down into 7 categories:

Adults with Aspergers

This category gives advice and information for parents of children who are more in their early adulthood stage of life. But is obviously relevant to parents with younger children as they can begin to see issues that may lie ahead in the future. Several examples of articles in this category are:

My daughter is now a parent. The biggest challenge is ensuring that she is reading my grandbaby’s emotions appropriately and that she is interacting with the baby and not with her cell, My Space page, or other object!

How do I get information to help an adult with Asperger’s? My son was diagnosed as an adult, so I am not able to find out much about his problems/treatment due to patient confidentiality on the part of his doctors.

Education

In this category there are lots of articles all related to education and learning for children with Aspergers. Some examples include:

Why is my son’s behavior unacceptable at school sometimes, whilst at home we have very few problems?

I don’t know how to help my daughter retain the information she learns at school and by doing homework.  When exams are due, it’s a nightmare.  I work hard to help her understand a problem, but she forgets it a few days later!  Anxiety is also a problem for both of us now!What can we do?

My child with Asperger’s is having trouble with writing issues and small motor skills. Can you help?

Gaining Independence

Now this is a category that is going to be very important to parents as I get lots of questions about how to support a child with Aspergers to become more independent. Some of the questions that I have already covered in this category are:

How can I help my son have a life outside of home?

My child will not take personal responsibility for her actions; she’s now 18 so what can I do?

What do I do to equip my 15 year old son to cope with real life issues and set aside his fantasy world?

Gluten Free Cooking

This category is devoted to sharing information and recipes for parents for gluten free cooking – as the gluten/casein free diets are beginning to be used more and more to help children with Aspergers. I am currently working with a top published author on helping me with this section – and more will be revealed in due course. But currently there are a number of recipes in this category for:

Gluten Free Apple Bread

Gluten Free Bread Maker Brown Bread

Gluten Free Pumpkin Pie

Share your Recipes/Share your Stories/Inspirational Stories

These 3 categories are much more interactional and will grow and develop as more and more parents get involved. They will offer the opportunity for parents to share and swap information, stories and recipes that will offer hope, support and encouragement to one another. This is definitely an area which I plan to grow and develop further as I firmly believe that parents have so much that they can teach each other.

Well that’s all for this update but be sure to look out of the next one which will explain more in-depth about the “Resources” category.

Take care for now,

Dave Angel

PS – If you missed any of the previous blog posts abut the
new website you can read them all by scrolling down the following web page:

http://parentingaspergers.com/blog/category/new-parenting-aspergers-website-launch/