AUTISM CYMRU

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AUTISM CYMRU

• NEWI 5th July 2007
• Secondary School Forum Member

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ADOLESCENCE

• Ways forward for young people with a diagnosis of
  
• Aspergers Syndrome

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Adolescence what is it all about in 2007?
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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
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Erebus then married his mother and they in turn
were overthrown By their own offspring. This
continued until URANUS and GAIA thought,
Weve 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.
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What does it show?

• The first known
• PREVENTATIVE
• approach to
• DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOUR

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Today!

• Young people today !!!!
• I dont feel safe !!!
• They dont talk properly !!!

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GROWTH
So, we all agree that adolescence is a state of
change that we all have to go through.
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ISSUES AND VIEWS
Here are some of the views of the issues as
experienced by adolescents in our unit.

• CROWDS
• VIDEOS
• HARRY POTTER
• FLOWERS

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REALITY
Rejection by peer group. Differences are
therefore A FACT OF LIFE
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SO WHAT CAN WE DO TO HELP?
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A SHARED DISABILITY

• WE CAN TRY
• and
• UNDERSTAND

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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.

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

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• CONSISTENCY of expectation, actions, rewards
  and punishment.
• Traditional closed plan rather than open plan.
• Strong discipline is not the answer to
  Aspergers.
• 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.

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MANAGE your own STRESS
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PROFESSOR BARKLEYS 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.

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• Check your priorities for the child.
• Dont personalise the childs problems.
• Forgive him.
• Forgive yourself.
• Forgive others.
• Manage your own stress.

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YogaReligionFriendsTime for yourself
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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)
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