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Social Skills in the Workplace: A Case Study to Help Your Employee with Asperger Syndrome
We again visit the workplace of employer ‘Jack’ and his new employee ‘Al’ who has Asperger Syndrome. In this small informal office, Al felt discomfort and confusion with ordinary routines related to phones, break time and workplace jargon. In this next phase of our work together, we designed three customized action plans, which helped Al succeed with the more social side of office responsibilities.More -
Help Your Employee With Asperger Syndrome Get into the Flow of Your Office Routines
After happening across an article on Asperger Syndrome, Jack wrote me about his new employee with whom he was quite pleased and also quite baffled. Jack talked about the similarities he saw between Al, his new employee, and the characteristics of a person with Asperger syndrome. Al was hired because he excels in understanding and managing the software systems this business uses.More -
Practical Tips to Help Your Employee with Asperger Syndrome Get Established in Your Office
You have just hired someone who has Asperger Syndrome, or perhaps you suspect so, and indeed he or she has very strong skills to match the job description. It is likely that you will be very pleased because people with Asperger Syndrome tend to have strong focus and commitment to a job well done.To set up for office place success, you will find it pays off to invest in some training time, early on in some of those skills unrelated to the primary job, but fundamentally important to navigating the day at the office.More -
Communication Tips to Help Your Employee with Asperger Syndrome Thrive in Your Work Place
Your new employee has the skills you were looking for and is dedicated to doing the job well. The challenging part for a person with Asperger Syndrome is the less structured, more social aspects of office culture. Small talk, picking up what others are thinking, and being imaginative about solving problems are challenging for people with Asperger Syndrome.More -
Ten Tips to Stay Sane and Centered With Challenging Grown Ups at Your Holiday Events
Occasions such as holidays, birthdays, anniversaries or even memorials are ripe opportunities for others’ unhealthy behavior habits to test your boundaries and your integrity. You can love your family or social group like crazy, but there is something about holidays that can bring out the crazy in everyone. There might be a family gathering or an office party that you would rather bow out of, but you decide to go as one of your ‘shoulds,’ trusting your instincts that you better show up at this one.More -
Social Skills Training and Rewards: Five Tips to Tailor Your System to a Perfect Fit for Your Child
If you want to improve how your kids respond to your behavior change program, you may need to fine-tune your reward system. Here are six key questions to guide you to create rewards to a tailor-made fit to your child's individuality. 1. Do your rewards have enough novelty to keep your child motivated?More -
Social Skills Training and Rewards: Six Tips for Fine Tuning Your Child's Behavior Change Program
Of course, you want your child to experience that internal sense of satisfaction of a job well done. That is a feeling money cannot buy. But for the tougher skills and for our more challenging loved ones, concrete rewards are appropriate and valuable as motivational tools.More -
Social Skills and Problem Solving: Parents, Are You Listening?
What do we adults do when our friends call us with problems in their lives? We listen. We sympathize.More -
Social Skills and Your Behavior Change Program: Troubleshooting when the Rewards Aren't Working
When parents and teachers say they are about to give up on their behavior modification system, it is often a straightforward matter of fine-tuning the rewards component.Here are six questions to help you explore and improve your rewards:1. Are the rewards you are currently using the best choices for your child? Who picked these rewards?More -
Asperger Syndrome and High Functioning Autism: Five Questions to Help Teachers
To help our kids who have Autism or Asperger Syndrome thrive in mainstream settings, you have to first pay attention to who they are as unique individuals.Following are five key questions to help you reflect on what you are doing now and guide you to help these kids and adults have success:1. Are you sure your child or student knows what it is you want him to do? Be sure the task is achievable and then be sure to understand the particular way he or she learns and acts on information.More