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CASE STUDIES
Noel
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Noel is 8. He
has language problems (difficulty
in expressing what he wants to say) in addition to the communication and
socialization
problems associated with the Aspergers condition. Another
aspect of Aspergers is the need to tell the truth no matter what the circumstances.
He is unaware of how he might inadvertently hurt other people’s feelings.
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When Noel
completes work successfully he is rewarded, sometimes with a sticker and
sometimes with a picture to colour. On one occasion Noel was given a fancy,
coloured sticker but he refused it saying, “I don’t want that sticker.” He then
walked over to another box of stickers, looked through a book and chose a very
simple one which simply said, “Good work.”
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after finishing his work, Noel was given a blank piece of paper to draw
a
picture. He refused to draw. The classroom assistant sensed what
the problem was and produced an outline picture of a mouse with some cheese.
Immediately Noel began to colour. The assistant had remembered a time
three weeks previously when Noel had coloured the same picture.
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Study Links
You have been told your are going
to have a child with Aspergers's Syndrome in your class. What will be
your main priorities for his first term? What questions will you ask
the SENCO/resource teacher?
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He had chosen the
colours but later became agitated when he saw a cartoon of Tom and Jerry
which had
different colours to Noel’s picture. This time Noel’s picture was coloured
exactly as the T.V. cartoon.
Strategies
Further Information
http://www.talkingteaching.co.uk/resources/show_resource.cfm?id=29
Luke Jackson, who appeared on television in July writes
an article about his experiences at http://www.bbc.co.uk/ouch/columnists/luke/240903_index.shtml
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