| Asperger syndrome affects people all their lives. | | | | moving classrooms for different lessons and |
| However, as people get older their social abilities | | | | different teachers. This may trigger anxiety |
| may improve. | | | | attacks in the asperger adolescent. |
| So what are asperger adolescents physical | | | | It may be an idea to introduce ‘aspergers |
| symptoms ? | | | | and social training’… before the move to |
| - Asperger syndrome adolescents find it hard to | | | | secondary school. Finding your asperger coping |
| relate to other people. | | | | strategies will help to alleviate some of the |
| - They may talk a lot about their own interests, | | | | anxiety triggers your adolescent may be feeling. |
| and have trouble with conversations, or allowing | | | | Aspergers and Social training… |
| others to speak. | | | | One method for doing this, which can be |
| - They may have trouble understanding other | | | | implemented quickly and effortlessly is by using |
| peoples feelings and lack the ability to “mind | | | | something called asperger social skills stories… |
| read” or read others They may be unaware | | | | What are asperger social skills stories? |
| when they hurt someone's feelings, or when | | | | …Asperger social skills stories, are short pieces |
| someone doesn't want to listen to them. | | | | of text with visual images appropriate to the |
| - They like repetition and everything to remain | | | | instruction or explanation the story portrays… |
| the same. They can get very upset when | | | | For example, a social kiss…an appropriately |
| routines change. | | | | written asperger social story will explain, what a |
| - The Asperger adolescents physical symptoms | | | | social kiss is, when it is appropriate, and why |
| may vary from slightly unusual behavior to quite | | | | sometimes it is not appropriate to kiss our friends |
| aggressive and anti-social behavior. | | | | or others even if the desire to kiss is their, the |
| - Many scientists, writers and artists are thought | | | | story will explain the consequence and why |
| to have had Asperger syndrome, including many | | | | sometimes it just is not appropriate to kiss |
| Nobel Prize winners. | | | | people. |
| When the time arrives for the asperger pre teen | | | | Asperger social stories when written well by an |
| to change schools and go to secondary school. | | | | expert will give accurate information to help the |
| This can be a very worrying time, not only for | | | | asperger adolescent make sense of the world |
| the asperger child but also their primary carers or | | | | around them. And give them clear coping |
| parents. | | | | stratergies plus techniques to help them |
| Secondary school can be stressful for the | | | | understand, and be accepted socially. |
| asperger adolescent, with changing timetables, | | | | |