Asperger Experts
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Get help & hope from those who're on the Autism spectrum with these stories, examples, and explanations. Asperger Experts is a Seattle, WA-based media & training company that provides guidance, mentorship & training to parents, families, individuals on the Autism spectrum, and professionals, with a focus on lived, first-person experience.
Asperger Experts
3y ago
After they stuck my son in a tiny instrument closet for refusing to write (even though he has dysgraphia), I learned that there was a legal process to follow to get him the accommodations he needed. Here's what I learned ..read more
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3y ago
The so called “bad parents” aren’t the ones reading about Asperger’s advice & help, and aren’t the ones that are seeking to get better ..read more
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3y ago
It's one thing to constantly declare that you can be trusted, you should be respected, or you are an authority. It's another thing entirely to demonstrate through action that you can be trusted, you are respectable and you are knowledgeable ..read more
Asperger Experts
3y ago
Throughout my life I have not been able to relate to people on a level where I feel connected, understood, or accepted, and even more painful . . . in a way I feel loved. There was always a missing piece, a sense of being different, excluded, isolated, and just not part of ..read more
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3y ago
Whether the child is 4 or 44, parents all want to know: “Should I talk to my son/daughter about their diagnosis? If so, how? When? What if they’re already turned off or too angry about the “label ..read more
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3y ago
With the Red-Line approach, each new attempt to motivate will produce fewer results, and, in the long-term, will continually require a sweeter carrot or a scarier stick in order to maintain its original effectiveness. There's a better way ..read more
Asperger Experts
3y ago
Allow me to provide you with a simple but powerful script that you can use as a template for having uncomfortable conversations when you need to hold boundaries... without walking on eggshells ..read more
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3y ago
Mom assumed that Sarah’s sluggishness in the morning was caused by lack of sleep, but did we actually know that was the cause? Sarah insisted that she wanted to stay up reading an additional thirty minutes and that she could still wake up on time ..read more
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3y ago
When you're in Defense Mode, everything is harder because you're constantly trying to protect yourself from the overwhelming stress of both real and imagined threats that constantly surround you ..read more
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3y ago
Many people believe that if someone doesn’t appear to be motivated, it’s because they don’t want it. People hardly ever look deeper to find that someone actually does want something, they just don’t have the capacity and capability ..read more