Asperger's Syndrome is a disability that many teachers may come across throughout their teaching experience. Their responsibility to be aware of the teaching strategies and knowledge goes along with teaching a child in an appropriate manner. A child with any disability needs an equivalent education as well as any other. With the education provided to the teachers of tomorrow, will guarantee an improvement in how we teach the children for their future. .
Asperger's is a syndrome that is also known as Autistic Psychopathic, which is a persuasive development disorder, characterized by severe and substantial impairment in social interaction, development of restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, and activities. These following characteristics result in clinically significant impairment in a social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning (Simpson 1997).
Characteristics often associated with autism are engaged in repetitive activities and sterotyped movements, resistance to environmental change or change in daily routines, and unusual responses to sensory experiences. Asperger's disorder is a milder variation of an Autistic Disorder. Both are in fact subgroups of a larger diagnostic category called Pervasive Development Disorders or PPD (APA 1994). There are two sided social interaction and non-verbal communication. However, grammatically, their speech is peculiar due to abnormalities of infection and a repetitive pattern. Clumsiness is prominent in their both articulation and gross motor behavior. They usually have a restricted an area of interest which then usually leaves no space for more age appropriate interests. This area of interest can cause them to talk lengthily about a favorite topic, repeat a word, or phrase over many times.
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The name Aspergers comes from Hans Asperger, an Austrian physician who first described the syndrome in 1944. It is seen that biological factors are of crucial importance in the "etiology of autism, so far the brain imaging studies have shown no constant pattern or effidence of any lesion in subjects with autistic symptoms.