advice for parent of ASD/High functioning aspergers child

Dustyfeathers
Wed, 05 Dec 2018 20:22:40 +0000

Thanks @sdl0625 – good to know.

BTW!! Update on gapping child! Gapping child just this past hour got an excellent position / paying internship at a very nice non-profit org in our city!

This is a child who, like others on this thread, wasn’t bathing properly, would barely leave his/her room and so on. Currently has been getting up at 5AM for the past several mornings in pursuit of a job and . . . . . got one today.

I firmly believe that this miraculous turn-around has been because of constant affirmations from parents that the decisions child was making were good (we may not have been comfortable with all of them as parents, but they were in the ballpark of basically okay). Also child was being challenged with what s/he could do at that time – not some random timeline that’s set out for Joe or Jill Average Child that s/he had to keep up with, but s/he was being challenged with what this child could handle at any given time. Child basically was able to meet those goals and gradually his/her outlook and confidence improved.

This organization that teaches professional skills also worked miracles. It was great to find some sort of organization outside of the house to help teach these soft skills. RIT and other colleges may offer this kind of support. I’m sure that some behavioral therapy groups may offer this sort of support. Maybe some faith-based orgs also offer soft-skills support. We happened to find a non-profit-org that works with and in our city to help youth.