For Counselors and Health Professionals
Individuals, families and schools dealing with Asperger Syndrome and autism often need additional support. Here are some areas we've found where knowledgeable counselors and heath professionals have been particularly helpful.
Helping to disclose Asperger Syndrome and autism in positive ways to teachers, classmates, supervisors and coworkers.
Using your experience to help families see solutions they may not be able to discover on their own.
Helping people on the spectrum realistically assess their strengths and challenges, recognize their self worth, and work to modify challenging behaviors.
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Asperger Syndrome: Alone By Choice? Does your child with Asperger Syndrome really want to be alone? I have Asperger Syndrome, and I enjoyed being...
Motivating Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders How do you motivate a child with Asperger Syndrome or autism?
Autism Awareness and Employers I saw a nice feature in the paper this morning about Autism Awareness Month. Of course, in our family, every month is Autism...
Asperger Honesty We all want our children to be honest and open. Okay, if you’re the parent of a child with Asperger Syndrome, you’ll probably...
Learning to Swim When I was little, I almost drowned. On summer days, I’d go to a community pool with the kids from the neighborhood...
Colorful Language - Cautious Vocabulary I like colorful language. Vivid word images can really help communicate a point. But there’s a down side, and it’s one that those of us...
Good Job What’s your child with Asperger Syndrome going to do for a living? Too early to start thinking about that? Really, it's not. While your ten year...
Programming the Asperger Brain We’re not computers. But comparing our brains to computers can help us understand and deal with some Asperger Syndrome behaviors. In elementary...
Beating Behavior Whac-A-Mole I admit it. I’ve played Behavior Whac-A-Mole. It’s a version of the arcade game where mole heads pop out of holes at a faster and faster rate...
What’s So Funny About Asperger Syndrome? I’ve heard many parents of children with Asperger Syndrome talk about their kids’ sense of humor. This may be because a lot of humor comes...
Asperger Syndrome: Living the Dream It was the dead of winter in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. In the gathering darkness, Julie and I got off the snow-plowed highway and walked...
Determining Where Your Child Is You have a child with Asperger Syndrome. Where is he? Not geographically. I mean in the larger sense of: where is he or she in preparing for...
Voice Volume Speaking at a volume that’s appropriate to the situation is a basic social skill that most people pick up intuitively. Most people....
Asperger Syndrome: Meeting the World Halfway I’m convinced that, without knowing it, many of us are routinely interacting with people who have some form of Asperger Syndrome. We may think it’s...
Asperger Awareness and “Aha!” Moments Autism Awareness Month is an opportunity for people with Asperger Syndrome. What can awareness of Asperger Syndrome do? It helped a mother I...
The Asperger Diagnosis Challenge Part 2 I’ve been reading published responses to the American Psychiatric Association’s proposal to remove Asperger Syndrome from their diagnostic and...
The Asperger Diagnosis Challenge Being diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome in 1997 was one of the best things that ever happened to my son, Drew. Make no mistake, Asperger Syndrome can...
Asperger Syndrome Job Success Secrets So, what do you do? It’s one of the first questions one adult asks another when they meet. What do you do for a living? What’s your job?
I Am Asperger Syndrome Will you think of me differently after you read the next sentence? I have Asperger Syndrome.
Drew's Moving Out Drew, our 25 year old son with Asperger Syndrome, is moving out. It’s such a major event in our lives; it triggers a cascade of thoughts and...