Thursday, March 18, 2010

As I promised

Last time I promised I would come back with some helpful tips for children with Asperger's. Here it is! Children with Asperger's have a very difficult time socializing with others, here is a helpful site that can help you make what they call social stories for you to practice at home with your child to help them understand or to make a habit on the way they react with others
http://www.thegraycenter.org/social-stories
They also have an activity called ATTRIBUTES ACTIVITY. (Normally done with a clinician)This is for you and your child to do together or as a family. Get large sheets of paper or a large dry erase board, With a parent starting first,(the child with Aspergers goes last) that person is to divide each sheet into two columns: "Qualities" and "Difficulties". These can be practical abilities, knowledge, personality, and expression, feelings. Make sure you keep it a positive activity! Ensuring there are more good than bad. The clinician will do this activity to show the patterns and helps with a diagnosis. But is to reassure the child that there is nothing wrong with Aspergers it is just a different way of thinking, and some of the child's talents and good qualities come from having Aspergers. Even Einstein, Thomas Jefferson and Mozart were said to show signs of Aspergers!

We are going to give these a try! Never hurts.

1 comment:

  1. It sounds like you're well on your way to helping things get easier for Taylor, Tracee. I'm very interested to see how it works out, and how he reacts!!

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