The Childrens Issues

Aspergers Syndrome: Group Treatment


Program Description

Our speaker, Geoff Magnus, takes a positive approach to his work with latency and teen-aged Aspies. He has found that because of an early lack of social information, the kids can very easily get overstimulated and overexcited. Because facial information is not particularly meaningful to them, they have trouble coordinating that with what’s going on in their lives, and recognizing the feelings of others. But even so, to kids with Aspergers, relationships are very important. They are highly motivated to interact with each other and actually that’s the basis of his group treatment. By putting the kids in a group together with very little intervention, they have amazing results.

Learning Objectives

1. Know the difference between autism, Aspergers, and social anxiety.
2. Understand Theory of Mind as it exists in Aspergers.
3. Learn why group therapy is often the treatment of choice for Aspergers kids.

Interviews

Asperger's Syndrome: Group Treatment. - Geoff Magnus

Our speaker, Geoff Magnus, takes a positive approach to his work with latency and teen-aged “Aspies.” He has found that because of an early lack of social information, the kids can very easily get overstimulated and overexcited. Because facial information is not particularly meaningful to them, they have trouble coordinating that with what’s going on in their lives, and recognizing the feelings of others. But even so, to kids with Asperger’s, relationships are very important. They are highly motivated to interact with each other and actually that’s the basis of his group treatment. By putting the kids in a group together with very little intervention, they have amazing results.

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