| If your child or any child that you know has little social | | | | friendship for a period of time and then all of a sudden |
| and communication skills, shows some repetitive | | | | that friend will no longer want to be friends with them. |
| behavior and/or becomes overly involved in one topic, | | | | The child will probably have no idea why this person no |
| that child may have Asperger Syndrome. Aspergers is | | | | longer wants to be their friend and this is a pattern that |
| in the Autism Spectrum Disorder class of disorders | | | | may continue throughout their lives. |
| and is a type of high functioning autism. This means | | | | A child with Aspergers will usually sit back and watch |
| that someone with Asperger’s will generally have | | | | children play and will be hesitant to join in until they are |
| better language skills than someone with full autism | | | | actually invited. It isn’t that they don’t want |
| and will generally be able to live a more normal life. | | | | friends because they really do, but they just aren’t |
| Having said that, Aspergers still can be quite hard to | | | | sure how to communicate properly. Because of this |
| deal with and some lifestyle changes will need to be | | | | problem with communicating with children of their own |
| made to work around your Aspergers child. There is | | | | age, Asperger children will often prefer to play with |
| no cure for Aspergers but there are treatments and | | | | children younger than them or even to hold a |
| strategies available to make life easier for an | | | | conversation with adults. |
| Aspergers person. | | | | Life can be quite difficult for a child with Asperger |
| A child with Asperger Syndrome will often become | | | | Syndrome and because they are usually of above |
| quite obsessive in a single topic or object and will learn | | | | average intelligence they do know that they are |
| everything they can about it. You may find that this | | | | different but they just don’t know how to change |
| topic that they are involved in is all that they will want | | | | that. This can be very stressful and many children may |
| to talk about and they may continue to constantly talk | | | | end up with anxiety disorders or even depression. |
| about it even though others are really not interested in | | | | There are strategies and techniques that can be used |
| it. | | | | to help teach your child the social skills that they lack |
| One of the biggest characteristics of Asperger | | | | and this will be a huge benefit for them throughout their |
| Syndrome is the lack of communication and social | | | | life to learn these skills. If you have a child with |
| skills. Asperger children will find it hard to interact with | | | | Asperger Syndrome I highly recommend that you learn |
| other children of their own age and will find it difficult to | | | | as much as you can about the disorder and teach |
| make friends and maintain friendships. Sometimes they | | | | them the social skills they need to give them a big |
| may make close friends and will maintain that | | | | head start to leading a reasonably normal life. |