Creating A Positive Elementary Environment For Asperger Children

The essential features of Asperger’s Disorder are severe and sustained impairment in social interaction and development of restricted repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, and activities.  This disturbance must cause clinically significant impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas o functioning.  In contrast to Autistic Disorder, there are no clinically significant delays or deviance in language acquisition (e.g., single non-echoed words are communicatively by age 2 years, and spontaneous communicative phrases are used by age 3 years), although more subtle aspects of social communication (e.g., typical give-and-take in conversation may be affected.” (p. 80)