Asperger Syndrome and Definition
Asperger syndrome is one of the autism spectrum disorders…Asperger syndrome and definition: The child’s ability to socialize and communicate effectively is affected. The condition is characterized by an inability to interact or communicate socially.
Some of the typical asperger syndrome and definition characteristics include:
* Uncoordinated motor movements and clumsiness.
* Poor posture
* Social impairments
* Limited interests and sometimes unusual preoccupations
* The need for repetition and ritualistic obsessions, like lining up possessions, collecting timetables and so on…
* Inability to communicate effectively lack of ability to understand wit, humor, puns and slang words
* Inability to read body language or facial expression…lack of eye contact
* Inappropriate behaviors
* Speech and language deficits…odd use of language and sometimes language can be delayed.
* Appearing to lack the ability to understand others feelings and emotions…one sided friendships…there way or no way!
As with autism there is no cure for asperger syndrome. That said there are things you can do to help those asperger individuals.
Asperger syndrome and definition:
Generally an asperger individual will display limited facial expressions. Mostly the asperger individual will have excellent rote memory, and will also display an intense interest in one maybe two topics to the exclusion of anything else.
These interests can sometimes be with the strangest of things; for example a bus timetable, a clock some marbles etc.
An asperger person may appear preoccupied with their own agenda to the exclusion of anything or anyone else.
Children with asperger syndrome have a better chance of living independently than those children with autism or other conditions on the spectrum.
Treatments and therapies are used for the asperger person as well as social skills training, educational intervention and medications.
I want to focus if I may on social skills training…Research suggest one of the main disabilities faced by asperger syndrome people is their lack of social awareness and deficits in social skills and communications.
If an individual with aspergers is going to live independently, and live as near a normal life as possible, this area needs to be looked at…and techniques and resources need to be put in place, to aid the individual with aspergers, achieve this goal.
There are resources that can help achieve this long term goal. One of those resources is the use of autism social skills stories, or asperger social skills stories.
These excellent resources are designed to help the asperger or autistic person understand and deal with situations and activities that the rest of us take for granted like tooth brushing or catching a train or bus.
The asperger social skills stories are a blueprint to independent life and those things we take for granted like…shopping trips or flushing toilets.
An asperger individual may be confused by certain situations and struggle to understand things like friendships, being a good sport and so on..
These are areas that asperger social skills stories can benefit them with clear precise information and instruction.
For a variety of topics that the asperger individual is finding confusing or that may be making them anxious or aggressive.
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