Acting and Aspergers
Therapy and a Livelihood for Some on the Spectrum Is acting your thing? Many diagnosed with High-Functioning Autism or Asperger Syndrome have taken to the stage or screen as their profession or hobby. Take Dan Aykroyd and Darryl Hannah or even Sir Anthony Hopkins who all have disclosed the AspergerContinue Reading
Empowerment: Building Success for Employees Diagnosed with Autism
Are you an employer looking to better your practice of hiring persons diagnosed with autism? Or perhaps you are looking for employment yourself but have had difficulty getting past the interview process. We wanted to offer you a powerful resource from a recent webinar titled: Empowerment: Building Success for EmployeesContinue Reading
Summer College Experiences Can Greatly Benefit ASD Students
The summer between high school graduation and the first day of college classes can be both exciting and anxiety-producing. It can be for anyone, really, but it may be especially so for individuals diagnosed with ASD. Challenges with executive functioning and theory of mind may make aspects important to theContinue Reading
Why Is There A Rise In Autism?
The estimation of changes in the patterns and numbers of the cases of autism in the US has recently become fairly complicated with the main debate being about the documented cases of the autism spectrum disorder. In the previous years, it was much easier to pin down the exact ratesContinue Reading
Self Advocacy with Aspergers
Self advocacy is the action of representing oneself or one’s views or interests. This includes: learning how to speak up for yourself, make your own decisions, pursue your interests, find the people who will support you, know your rights and responsibilities, problem-solve, listen to others, and express agreement and disagreementContinue Reading
Aspergers 101 Frequently Asked Questions
Whether you are beginning to suspect your child (or yourself) might have a form of Autism or Asperger Syndrome, or you are already on your journey, this resource was compiled for you! We polled the 101 top requested questions on Asperger Syndrome and put them in one place for thoseContinue Reading
Aspergers and Sensitivity to Color: Interior Designer Focuses on Interiors for Those with Autism
When our youngest son was no more than 6 years old, we would enter a restaurant or someone’s home and he would throw up. He told us it was a picture or something on the wall that made him so ill. I thought it had to be due to theContinue Reading
Preparing Autistic Students for a New Activity
In a previous post, we reviewed strategies for solving math word problems. One of the comprehensive strategies noted was priming. This week, we will take a closer look at this strategies in order to apply it across subject areas and grade levels. Priming is a method of preparing a studentContinue Reading
My Battle Plan for Communication as an Adult with Aspergers
For much of my life, I have had a hard time understanding not only the non-verbal communication of others, but how my own non-verbal communication affected others. Sometimes, if I was irritated at someone, I would simply keep my mouth shut, the rationale being “They can’t hold me accountable for somethingContinue Reading
The Art of a Job Interview When You Have Asperger’s
I left school in 1994 and had my first job interviews in the same year. I was, like most Aspies both then and now, full of nerves fueled by a strong desire to make the right impression. What I hope to do here is outline what I did to overcomeContinue Reading
Sibling Friendship and Aspergers: When Childhood Friends Outgrow Each Other
I don’t know if telling this story will date me, but I guess it doesn’t matter that I grew up in the sixties. I remember as a child, that song and story about Puff the Magic Dragon. The special friendship he and Christopher Robbins had together, but then the boy growsContinue Reading
Self-Care and Parenting Aspergers: Pencil in YOU
The day you become a parent changes everything and there will always have to be a give and take to find the balance that our souls so desperately crave. The problem lies in the fact that for many of us, while we know parenthood is an amazing blessing, it oftenContinue Reading
