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Special Ed Teacher
Well, with Autism and Asperger's, a big thing is social skills and communication. Its possible to have good cognitive ability, but these other two areas are shot. Lots of gains can be made in the right school with good teachers.
Case in point this one boy, who we'll call David, went into my training school at the age of 3, 99% nonverbal, delayed all over the place. But the time I worked with him when he was 5, someone without any knowledge of autism would have never known he was autistic, just...querky for lack of a better term. His cognitive ability was over his age, he could talk, which he did a LOT, but his social skills were still low. Except for his attention to one little girl in class. He followed her and it was obvious he liked her, and vice versa. Which was good to see from him, something is better than nothing (he never got inappropriate, although he did try to kiss her once).
They had this story on the news, and the fact that he went that far, and is almost totally nonverbal, is crazy. He has to type EVERYTHING on this device that then "says" what he types. It makes you realize that whining over silly stuff is dumb. If he can do all that, we all need to shut the hell up and step up our games.
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