Comments on: Teaching The Aspergers Mind…

By: Donna Hamilton

Donna Hamilton — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:28:23 +0000

I have looked at all the lessons you have sent me for about a year now, my question is does asperger sydrome children in their teens show sexual misbehavior?

By: rusty

rusty — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:02:40 +0000

may i ask how many people learned about their mental state later in their life? it is my belief about my progress had to do with not knowing i had a severe mental disability. growing up on a farms and ranchs and my parents never told me anything was wrong with me or i had a condition.
i was 45 when the answers to why i had so many problems when i got married. what i learned about the first six years of my life and the drowning at age six helped me to put things to rest.
my advice to anybody live in the moment not in the past or future. never do two things at one time mentally or physically and most importantly, never say no or i can’t do that to anything and do things of value.

By: Susan

Susan — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:10:57 +0000

Is it bad for Aspies to play video games and watch tv and play on computer? My 6yo son loves to do so and we let him. He does earn the time by reading books to us but we haven’t been limiting the laenght of time as long as he has earned the tickets.

By: Wendy Graham

Wendy Graham — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:03:39 +0000

One thing I have come to realize as a parent, is there is too much noise out there. I am teaching my child that being different is ok - as every person on this planet is different. No one (even teachers, have the right to label). It is too easy to say that I am not coping because of the teacher and then it becomes ok to drop grades - if the teacher is ignoring you, make yourself heard. Every child has the right to an education, especially if you are paying them to educate your child. Do you not perform your functions in your job, when you are getting paid. There is a reason that so many of these children are being born into this world at this time, there must be a shift coming - so these kids should stand tall and be proud and not have to conform to the old ways, when clearly they are here to teach us new ways. I, as a parent will fight the world if need be, so that my son’s place that he has been given in this world is open for him to use. It has been proven that kids have changed generally not just Aspie’s, due to TV, video games and the like. This generally makes kids anti social anyway - so our kids should fit in to this new world with no problem.

By: linda

linda — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:57:05 +0000

my as son is also an audatory learner. he has difficulty reading and getting his books on tape made all the difference. the perception that the teacher likes or dislikes him also effects his ability to learn certain subjects. a school psychologist helped him get books on tape from the blind and dyslexic society. he also gets them from the public library and on his computer. he is an avid reader or should i say listener. social skills are still a challange but support from a small private school school setting has helped a great deal, only 93 kids in the entire high school. so everyone gets to know everyone and each child gets individual attention and the teachers know them all.
hope this helps someone, linda

By: Leesa

Leesa — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:18:06 +0000

Does anyone know if Brain Gym can really help this sort of thing?

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:49:07 +0000

My son has struggled to learn his math facts, the Autism spec. for our county loaned me a “Hooked On Math” package. It has tapes that repeat the math facts over and over in time to music. My son loves it and after 3 weeks he finally know his times table. This after 2 years of flash cards and many tears on both our part. If your child is struggling with math facts’s I would really reccommend this.

By: Kim Livingston

Kim Livingston — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:20:17 +0000

I think there are a variety of factors to consider when assessing why your child is struggling in school or in a specific subject. Assessing your childs learning style kinesthetic-learns by doing, auditory-learns by hearing, visual-learns by seeing or a combination. The teacher may be teaching in their preferred style or non-preferred style and that may be the struggle. Your child might have a sensory processing or integration disorder that could be playing havoc in the classroom. They may be hypersensitive or hyposensitive to sound, touch, movement, smell, taste or vision. For example, if your child is an auditory learner, but is sensitive to visual stimuli and they sit at the back of the classroom, the movement of the other children in front of them and the sounds they make may be too distracting. An Occupational Therapist can help assess your child’s sensory sensitivities by doing a Sensory Profile on them if you are not sure. Even the time of day could be effecting them. Before lunch I’m great-but after-whew! I think the student/teacher and student/student relationships in the classroom can have a profound impact on the childs learning. When we sense that someone doesn’t like us we typically do one of two things-go overboard trying to please the person and getting them to like us or say to heck with it-they don’t like me and aren’t going to want to help me. This is where I think the social skills training is so important-teaching them how to handle difficult situations instead of withdrawing, because it is not a matter of If but When these situations will arise. Maybe setting up some different senarios that have or could happen at school at home in a safe situation and helping them formulate a response maybe helpful. I hope this was helpful!!

By: Betsy LeQuire

Betsy LeQuire — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:09:19 +0000

I can see where you are coming from. My son has as and sometimes he loves school and sometimes he hates it. I know it has to do with which teacher he has on which day. Trevor can learn from both ways though. Sometimes he can learn from visual and sometimes through audio. But it is not the same with all subjects. You just have to figure which one works.

By: Karen Robins

Karen Robins — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:49:02 +0000

My son Jack is 11, I put him in private school when he was 7, for the best I thought, but now I’m not so sure. He has always hated school but it is very dependent on the teacher, the one he has now is very negative towards him, they are aware he will not do home work at home but fail to supervise him at school, because he also suffers with ADHD if not kept on task he gets distracted, He is going to state school next year and I’ve got to say how very helpful and aware of his condition they are, he will get a teaching assistant in every lesson, can stay in at break times, use his laptop in every lesson, and do his homework at school etc I wonder whether he would have been better staying at state school during primary, I think I might have wasted my money so think before you move them, it took Jack 2 years to stop asking to go back to his old school.