Tag: Aspergers syndrome

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Carol Greenburg Joins as TPGA Editor

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We are so pleased to announce an addition to the editorial team at The Thinking Person’s Guide to Autism; Carol A. Greenburg will join our efforts here as an additional resource and editor. We are honored to have her rich experience and important perspective as part of our team.  We’re thrilled she was able to add TPGA to her very active life, and our community is lucky to have such a great advocate. Please join us in welcoming Carol. **** Carol Greenburg, executive director of Brooklyn Special Needs Consulting, is  a special education consultant and lay advocate in private practice serving the five boroughs of NYC and beyond. Her unique perspective as an adult with Aspergers Syndrome and as the mother of a severely language-delayed  autistic child, informs all of her work. In September, she was appointed the East Coast Regional Director of Autism Women’s Network (www.autismwomensnetwork.com) A frequent speaker at…

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Imagine This

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L.C. Horn lastcrazyhorn.wordpress.com Let me set up a scenario for you. Imagine first that you’re a kid, maybe eleven or twelve, possibly thirteen. You have Asperger’s syndrome, which means that your social skills are impaired already; plus you’re a preteen/young teen, which means that the rules for your social world are constantly in flux. But as of yet, you’re not diagnosed; nor has anyone in your life ever heard the word “Asperger’s,” nor would they know what it means. As if that weren’t bad enough, you’re a girl who is more of a tomboy, who doesn’t see the point in following the social rules or norms, either because it seems like a waste of time, or you’re just mostly oblivious to their existence in the first place. Most kids don’t like you very much. You don’t know why. Vaguely, you understand that there is something about your being that offends…

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Why Closed Captioning Isn’t Just For Deaf People

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Aspie Teacher www.aspieteacher.com Thanks to the excellent advice of a friend, closed captioning is one of the most helpful discoveries I’ve made. I didn’t even know until recently that you could get closed captioning on any TV show just by turning it on in your cable settings! For a long time, my husband and I have been really frustrated by the ratio of how much we paid for cable to how little TV we watched. And then, oh my god, I discovered closed captioning. I could finally read TV instead of just watching or listening to it — what a revelation! See, following a conversation is pretty complicated: You have to be able to hear what’s going on. There’s also the assumption that the language being spoken is one you understand. There’s the question of whether you can parse the words correctly, or tell where they begin and end. And…

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Being Employed With Asperger’s Syndrome

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Michael V. Drejer twitter.com/maialideth When I was diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome in 2003 at the age of 25, I had already pretty much given up hope of ever finding and getting a job that was right for me. All I had to show for my job skills was a high school diploma with a lousy grade average, and a few exams which I barely passed when I tried studying to become a school teacher and when I tried getting a bachelor degree in English at the university, neither of which I finished. Apparently it is difficult for people with Asperger’s syndrome to get a job or keeping a job, which was exactly what I had experienced as well. Fortunately, it does not have to be like that. In fact, hiring “aspies” for certain niche jobs can be of a great mutual advantage both for the aspie and for the company…