Your Asperger’s or HFA Child Is Not a Loner By Choice

Most children with Asperger’s and HFA are not loners by choice, and there is a tendency (as these young people develop towards adolescence) for despondency, negativism, and depression as a result of the child's increasing awareness of personal inadequacy in social situations and repeated experiences of failure to make and/or maintain relationships.

In this post, we will discuss the following:

• teaching your child to monitor her or his own speech style
• helping your child to recognize and use a range of different means to disagree, discuss, interact, mediate, negotiate, and persuade through verbal means
• helping him or her to develop the ability to anticipate multiple outcomes, to explain motivation, to make inferences, and to predict
• managing social situations
• how to interpret other people's social behavior
• training of the child's expressive skills

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