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Coalfields ASD Support Group
Hello and Thank You for taking the time to view this page. We know your time is so valuable!

What we would like to do with this wetpaint site is:
  • Invite parents to come along to our monthy Support meetings.
  • To invite parents to post on the Discussion Forum and feel free to
    talk openly or annonomously regarding situations that they are experiencing.
  • Also to feel free to share things that have helped themselves and their children/child
    through difficult periods while learning to cope with ASD behaviours.
What is ASD or Aspergers?

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), which includes Autism and Aspergers syndrome,
is a neuro-biological disorder that affects:
  • The way a person communicates
  • Socialises with others
  • Processes information from his/her senses
  • Adapts to his/her environment.
These deficits often lead to behaviours such as:
  • Rigid adherence to routines
  • Fixations on objects or topics
  • Withdrawal
  • Aggression
  • Bizarre or repetitive body movements.
ASD can have a profound and complicated impact on the most apparently simple everyday activities. ASD affects:
  • People of all intellectual abilities from those with a profound intellectual
    disability to people who are more able and, in some cases, gifted
  • Approximately four boys to every girl
Children and adults with Asperger’s Syndrome have an intellectual capacity within the normal range,
but have a distinct profile of abilities that has been apparent since early childhood.
The profile of abilities includes the following characteristics:
A qualitative impairment in social interaction:
  • Failure to develop friendships that are appropriate to the child’s developmental level.
  • Impaired use of non-verbal behaviour such as eye gaze, facial expression
    and body language to regulate a social interaction.
  • Lack of social and emotional reciprocity and empathy.
  • Impaired ability to identify social cues and conventions.
    A qualitative impairment in subtle communication skills:
  • Fluent speech but difficulties with conversation skills and a tendency to be pedantic,
    have an unusual prosody and to make a literal interpretation.
  • Restrictive Interests:
  • The development of special interests that is unusual in their intensity and focus.
  • Preference for routine and consistency.
The disorder can also include motor clumsiness and problems with
handwriting and being hypersensitive to specific auditory and tactile experiences.
There can also be problems with organisational and time management
skills and explaining thoughts and ideas using speech. (Ref: Tony Attwood’s website).
Our Next Meeting will be: ASD MAY BBQ:
ASD BBQ May


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