My son is a special needs child, he suffers from aspergers disorder. I have been studying it closely here of late because doctors seem to know very little about it. One thing that seems to be a recurring theme is to get together with people who can relate to the issues and troubles you face. Where you can share failures and successes helping each other reach a common goal of finding what’s best for your child. So I decided to turn to my brothers and sisters here. With that, do any of you guys here have a special needs child, not matter what the diagnoses might be, and are you willing to talk and share together your experiences. I am willing to help with the pit falls I have encountered and maybe save you some time and headaches and lead to successful resolution. I look forward to talking with you.
I know there is a member here whose son has Aspergers. Can't think of him at the moment. I have worked with children with Aspergers since I am a special ed teacher. If I can help in anyway, brother, let me know.
my son is 13 now, any help in learning how to get through to him, I mean we talk but we always seem to loose him. Theres so much its hard to know where to start. I guess my biggest concern is his social interaction with other kids his age, it is non-existent and though he never says anything, I know it hurts.
I am going to refer you to femalefinfan who is counselor. She might to be able to offer some more insight in the matter. As for my experiences,children with Aspergers were typically defined as being more social than any of the other spectrum in the Autism umbrella. When I did instruct these children (5th grade), I know that I would have to tell him every time I was going to be out, because of the strong sense of consistency and sameness in his life. Since the pragmatics of social interaction are absent, so are the intonations in speech which made him talk robotic. "No, thank you. I choose not to do that." What was funny about this boy was since he had no pragmatics These children are very high functioning and have the greatest success rates (in my limited experiences) for assimilation into society. They are typically average or above average in intelligence. No "Rain Man" here. With the right supports in place, there is no limit as to what your son can do. Let me see what supports I can find for you, brother.
I dont have a special needs child or any other child but if you want we can place Lucky and Sam in observation rooms and you can draw your own conclusions In all seriousness, I can tell you I have a mild case of ADD (and at times selective ADD if I really dont feel like doing something!) but its never been that severe where I let it hold me back.
