Calming Techniques for the Special Needs Child

This is a "best of the best" article. Check back here after September 15 for more articles by other authors on this topic. There ...

A Recent Experiment with Eye Contact

As discussed a few posts back, I've been doing a lot of cub scout leader training recently. It's been very interesting because it h...

Article: Life as an Aspergian female

John Elder Robison (author of " Look me in the Eye ") has posted part one of a story about a female with aspergers on his blog . ...

Conversational Effort: An Incident

This post is quite a long and rambling one... my apologies. I haven't been the most supportive husband of late due mainly to two separat...

More on Empathy (Empathy versus Emotion)

Today, I'm returning to the subject of Empathy because it's a very important part of the Aspergers condition. We lack empathy, but...

A couple of Good Aspie Links

Just thought I'd post a couple of great Aspie links; Napoleon Dynamite (defining Aspergers) I recently watched this film which others ha...

Aspie Barriers to Social Interaction

Social interaction is very difficult for people with aspergers for a number of reasons including; Difficulty Achieving and Maintaining Eye C...

Aspergers and Eye Contact

There's a lot in the literature about gaze-avoidance or lack of eye contact in Asperger's kids (and adults) but not really a lot fro...