| Does your child have AS - and, if so, what can you do | | | | intervening in a child's development in this way can help |
| to provide they reach their maximum potential? What | | | | children with autism to be more successful in |
| is the most effective asperger treatment and help for | | | | mainstream schools (Keenan et al., 2000). |
| aspergers? Many parents of aspergers children worry | | | | Even if you follow these treatments, they are only the |
| that their child will never be able to develop strong | | | | "tip of the iceberg" when it comes to maximizing the |
| friendships let alone a romantic relationship that could | | | | potential of your loved one with AS. |
| eventually lead to marriage and children. | | | | 2. Floor Time |
| But the truth is, it is all possible. Provided you have the | | | | During floor time, your child will stretch his imagination |
| right advice and information about this condition. | | | | and logical understanding of the world as he stages |
| Here are the top 3 methods of asperger treatment: | | | | make-believe games and locks horns with you over |
| 1. Applied Behavioural Analysis | | | | rules. He'll use gestures and words to express his |
| 2. Floor Time | | | | needs and to explore a broad range of emotions, from |
| 3. Speach Therapy | | | | exhilaration to anger. He will also hone his physical skills |
| 1. Applied behavioural analysis (ABA) | | | | as his muscles strengthen and grow. |
| Method of teaching that involves breaking tasks into | | | | 3. Speech Therapy |
| small, discrete 'teachable' steps. At each step | | | | Speech Therapy may help their child with |
| appropriate behaviours are reinforced. ABA selects | | | | communication difficulties. The difficulties are not in |
| developmentally appropriate behaviours as teaching | | | | how the child speaks or pronounces words, but rather |
| targets. These can range from maintaining eye | | | | in how the child perceives the meaning of other |
| contact to complex responses such as social | | | | people's speech and how they respond to it. |
| interaction. The child is given enough support to ensure | | | | You will be supporting your child's intellectual, emotional, |
| success, which is then positively reinforced by | | | | and physical development through your interactive play. |
| consequences that are reinforcing for that child. | | | | When we surveying 500 people who have loved ones |
| Gradually the amount of support and reinforcement is | | | | on the Autism Spectrum, and asked them to rate the |
| reduced. | | | | most effective treatment - The top result was Applied |
| Early intervention programmes for children with learning | | | | Behavioural Analysis. |
| difficulties have the potential to produce positive | | | | There's a whole lot more that you can do to make life |
| changes in development and consequently reduce the | | | | with AS so much easier and more fulfilling... |
| need for later interventions. Therefore in many ABA | | | | If you want to really understand AS and discover |
| programmes parents are trained to become the | | | | effective methods you can use immediately to give |
| primary therapists and their children receive one-to-one | | | | your child a better life then keep reading... |
| tuition in their own homes. There is evidence that | | | | Because this is your chance to discover... |