My ASD Child

  Do you need some assistance in parenting your Aspergers or HFA child? Click here to use Mark Hutten, M.A. as your personal parent coach. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~   Hi Mark, Your ebooks and audio’s are so incredible.  Between the Launching Adult Children and Teen ebooks, I am confident the “tough love” that I am now employing will be a positive outcome later.  My ex- is the “no-rule” parent, while I am the “structured” one.  Your tips and encouraging comments are starting to make a difference between my 18 year old son and me.  I wish I was able to understand the “poker response” a long long time ago. Thanks for taking the time to help parents like me! Kind Regards, Karen  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My daughter started kindergarten this year, it has been a nightmare.  She switched schools about 6 weeks in. Very bad experiences and too many in her classroom. Miley is 5 1/2, she was diagnosed with ASD in October. Unfortunately, the school doesn't believe

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“My daughter is totally obsessed with the weather. Reads books on it, watches the weather channel constantly, listens to thunder and lightning sounds on the computer, and so on. Is this typical autistic behavior? Why an obsession about weather?”   Nearly all children with High-Functioning Autism have an area of special, sometimes obsessive interest. Often times, these kids develop this interest as a way to overcome fear (however, this is not always the case).    Weather, especially tornadoes and hurricanes, can be fearful and even terrifying. A youngster on the autism spectrum may develop a preoccupation with weather to cope with this fear.  She might watch the Weather Channel continuously, read the weather report in the paper numerous times across the day, or read about different weather phenomena – and be able to share details of past storms when the weather worsens.  In addition, trains are often a focus of interest for many kids on the spectrum, perhaps due to the trai