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AUTISM CYMRU

AUTISM CYMRU. NEWI 5 th July 2007 Secondary School Forum Member. ADOLESCENCE. Ways forward for young people with a diagnosis of Asperger’s Syndrome. Adolescence: what is it all about in 2007?. An Age Old Problem. The creation myths of ancient Greece were based on strife.

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AUTISM CYMRU

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  1. AUTISM CYMRU NEWI 5th July 2007 Secondary School Forum Member

  2. ADOLESCENCE Ways forward for young people with a diagnosis of Asperger’s Syndrome

  3. Adolescence: what is it all about in 2007?

  4. An Age Old Problem The creation myths of ancient Greece were based on strife. The first Greek god ‘CHAOS’ was over Thrown by his wife and Offspring ‘EREBUS’

  5. Erebus then married his mother and they in turn were overthrown By their own offspring. This continued until ‘URANUS’ and ‘GAIA’ thought, ‘We’ve had enough of this!’ And were determined not to be victims themselves. So they chained their own enormous offspring the ‘TITANS’ to the bottom of the deep dark abyss.

  6. What does it show? The first known ‘PREVENTATIVE’ approach to DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOUR

  7. Today! • Young people today !!!! • I don’t feel safe !!! • They don’t talk properly !!!

  8. GROWTH So, we all agree that adolescence is a state of change that we all have to go through.

  9. ISSUES AND VIEWS Here are some of the views of the issues as experienced by adolescents in our unit. • CROWDS • VIDEOS • HARRY POTTER • FLOWERS

  10. REALITY Rejection by peer group. Differences are therefore A FACT OF LIFE

  11. SO WHAT CAN WE DO TO HELP?

  12. A SHARED DISABILITY WE CAN TRY and UNDERSTAND

  13. SCHOOL BASED SOLUTIONS • Close liaison with parents. • Close liaison with professionals • Explicit standards. • Explicit behaviour policy. • Explicit reward policy which includes rewarding non academic success. • Genuine praise for real improvement. • Expressing confidence in the pupil. • Showing you have noticed them. • Little and often.

  14. Keep updated lists of the pupils. • Gather useful information to guide you. • Co-ordinate information from other professionals. • Raise profile of Asperger’s and update. • Co-ordinate activities with parents. • Ensure Asperger’s is not confused with other disabilities.

  15. CONSISTENCY – of expectation, actions, rewards and punishment. • Traditional closed plan rather than open plan. • Strong discipline is not the answer to Asperger’s. • Teachers who are problem solving centred. • Availability of I.T. in a variety of lessons – Autistic pupils respond well to computerised instruction, animation, colour and graphics.

  16. MANAGE your own STRESS

  17. PROFESSOR BARKLEY’S PRINCIPLE-CENTRED PARENTING • Immediate rewards and consequences. • More frequent rewards and consequences. • More powerful consequences. • Frequent changes of rewards. • Act immediately – avoid discussions. • Use positive before negatives. • Plan to anticipate and reduce or prevent problems. • Keep reminding yourself that he has a disability.

  18. Check your priorities for the child. • Don’t personalise the child’s problems. • Forgive him. • Forgive yourself. • Forgive others. • Manage your own stress.

  19. YogaReligionFriendsTime for yourself

  20. ‘If we treat a man as if he were what we expect him to be, then he has some chance of becoming so……’ Goethe (a German poet and thinker)

  21. THE END OF THE PRESENTATIONemail : communicationsunit2003@yahoo.co.uk

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