Bullies are Empowered by Bystanders. Bullies are Empowered by Bystanders Details Published on Friday, 10 May 2013 10:26 Guest Blog by Dr. Frank Sacco keynote speaker at our 6th Annual Providers Conference, June 21-23, 2013 Bullies only do what bystanders allow. Bullying is developmental. A bully is not a person but a process with co-created roles. Building safety demands that the right people be involved.
What’s a parent to do? Next, open your eyes and ears to your kids and save your speeches for the school and community. School counselors and leaders need to be resource magnets. Bullying this type of kid should become the lowest form of social behavior in a school. Schools also have to become aware that some kids are big trouble and need special attention to be able to attend public or private school. Asperger's Parents and Neurotypical Children - Article by Jody ... Asperger's Syndrome is finally moving into the spotlight.
Questions that have perplexed Asperger's (AS) and neurotypical (NT) family members alike are now finding answers. Marriages between Aspies and NT's can improve as more becomes known about how to bridge the neurological gap. People with Asperger's are writing articles, blogging, and being heard. Their voices have been given a platform that's been long in coming. They certainly deserve this understanding. One group, though, that seems to be under-represented in all this new information and support, are the neurotypical children of Aspie parents. Aspie Mama - A Blog for Parents with Asperger's. There's something different about dad - Mothers & Babies, Lifestyle.
Or suppose he loses the rag every time your mobile phone rings or is outraged if somebody moves a favourite ornament a few inches?
On top of all of that, he may be pedantic, distant and extremely controlling -- his way to do something is the only way. We've heard about the difficulties faced by parents trying to cope with Asperger syndrome in children but what must it be like to have an Asperger's parent? A developmental disorder which can cause severe difficulties in terms of social interaction, communication and flexible thinking, Asperger syndrome affects an estimated 16,000 people in Ireland, most of them male. It's believed the ratio can be as high as nine males to every female. However, it's also increasingly accepted that many women may have gone undetected, possibly because of different cultural attitudes and expectations -- society approves of little girls who are quiet-spoken and introverted, for example, whereas boys are expected to be more boisterous and outgoing.
Relationship. People raised by parents with Aspergers Syndrome. Parents with Asperger’s: Part 1 – Negative Stereotypes. I hate having to do this, but after searching and searching, I feel it is needed.
I have had people ask me some worthwhile resources for parents on the spectrum. I’ve also been doing my best to find reliable sources to draw from to help build some concrete articles. Instead, what I’ve found is not only inaccurate, in many cases, down right brutal. Take an excerpt from an article in USAToday from 2007 Though professionals use the same diagnostic criteria, interpretations make for wide disparities in diagnosis. Parents With Asperger Syndrome. Parents with Aspergers exhibit either minor and/or significant problems in their parenting.
Problems experienced by moms and dads who meet most or all of the diagnostic criteria for Aspergers are significant and yet little understood in the child welfare community. This is in part because the able autistic parent community is invisibly disabled. Problems in parenting are linked directly to the core neuro-cognitive clinical features of Aspergers itself, namely weak central coherence, poor cognitive shifting & lack of a theory of mind. In this way, the problems experienced by these moms and dads may be described as being organic in origin. Elsewhere these problems have been described as occasionally presenting as either organic neglect or organic abuse. [2] Some of these moms and dads exhibit what I refer to herein as a parenting-disability. [3] That is, they suffer from significant neurological deficits that show up as deficits in their parenting tool kit. 1. 2.
The Mind Blind Parent: Can Aspies Make Good Parents? - Part 1. Introduction With all the negative things being said about aspergers on the internet, you could be forgiven for thinking that they make terrible parents.
It's not true. In general, aspies make no better or no worse parents than neurotypicals. Everyone is different and everyone selects their own parenting style. A lot of things affect your parenting style, including your own parents, the environment, the nature of your partner and your childen themselves. It's sad to think that we only become the best parents possible for a given age group when our children are leaving it for the next set of age-related behaviours.
It's funny to look back on my original thoughts about parenting and some of the naieve things I said that "my children would never do". My children didn't turn out like the kids on the sound of music. Can Aspies Make Good Parents? (Part 3) The plan for this post is to round up the topic of Aspie parenting with a look at some of the many benefits that aspie parents can give their children.
Emotional Clarity. Journeys with Autism » Reflections on Being an Aspie Parent.