I know that you cannot diagnose through an email, but these are things that we have noticed and that he is much different from other kids. We are trying to get counseling and help dealing with his behaviors (everyday is a blow up over nothing) but the counselor thinks he does not have...
Hi, going into ds's school tomorrow to look at how I can help improve things for him in the playground. He has aspergers and has been left out, manipulated and sometimes pushed around and it is making him suddenly reluctant to go to school. I have had lots of brilliant ideas on the...
but it seriously hurts and it removes my ability to function for several hours. This includes when it’s said about a profoundly disabled child – I may not share their experiences but I have a duty to defend autistic people
My concept is sensory based, not word based. Other ways of sensory-based categorization would be sound (barking or meowing) or smell. Researchers have found that people with autism often have difficulty in forming new categories (Minshew et al. 2002). When I was a child, we played lots...
It is interesting to note that many individuals with high functioning autism or aspergers are professional in the field of mathematics and physics. This means that barring those with the most severe symptoms autistic people of course have the capability of integrating into society. I believe it is...