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Understanding Aspergers Disorder as a Teacher
By Beth Gatewood
When you look at the high functioning Aspergers child he looks just as normal and playful as any of the other children his age. But when talking to a teacher about a child with asperger disorder, she doesn’t always realize that the asperger spectrum child takes things in differently. We recently had teacher to apologize because Austin didn’t understand an eye exam the way the other children were. Austin is a loveable little red head, but as he looks just like other kids, she expected him to react in the same way others would, when having an eye exam. She repeated tasks several times getting angry at him and he would get confused and accused her of hollering at him. Teachers have the attitude if he is so smart, why can’t he understand things like other children. He can go on for hours about his special little car and what goes on with it and how it works. But to explain something his teacher wants in detail, he can’t do it. At this point he will get stressed and upset and no matter what you do; he’s not going to listen. Many children with aspergers are also taking mood altering drugs to help with their disability. Some children diagnosed with ADHD have other diagnosis too, like depression, and bipolar, along with their aspergers diagnosis. Some children are on adhd medicine like Stattera, or Adderall to calm their symptoms down, so they are easier to handle in the classroom and at home. Some teachers have even gone to the point of thinking they know him so well about asperger disease, and can change his behaviors. There are always those that are opinionated and will blame the parents for the causes of autism. You’ll find yourself in many parent teacher conferences during the year over your child, trying to make the teacher understand about him. At times he won’t join in with activities with others because they are too demanding for him. He has a lot of social anxiety, and doesn’t react to children or follow the same social rules as other children. Many times he comes home from school in a bad mood, and it reflects on his siblings at home. When he says something he always speaks his mind, and is always blunt, but he is taken for being rude and arrogant.
He has gets back at kids by spitting, or hitting or expressing his anger, but he never knows why he did something. He can’t say he is sorry, because he doesn’t understand why he is in trouble in the first place, or why he did something. He has a harder time at making friends; others see him as different as the other little boys in his first grade class. He does want friends and has gone to the point of giving away little toys to his friends lately, as a means of making friends. All you can do when dealing with a teacher, is have lots of teacher and parent communication so the teacher will understand more about Asberger Syndrome. There are a lot of teachers that don’t understand about Asperger Disorder, or even know what it is. They assume just because your child looks normal in every aspect that he is.
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Beth, it is very evident that you have had some very trying times with ones who do not understand the disease. You have wisely said, "All you can do when dealing with a teacher, is have lots of teacher and parent communication so the teacher will understand more about Asberger Syndrome." This is so true with a disease that doesn't affect the looks of a child. Thank you for this intel.
Laraine
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