Helping People With Aspergers

 

Currently there are no medications to help or treat the disease itself. Instead there are are medications to help people with symptoms of the disease. These medications help with social retardation, anxiety, and verbal outbursts.

 

Special education: Education that is structured to meet the child's unique educational needs.

 

Behavior modification: This includes strategies for supporting positive behavior and decreasing problem behaviors.

 

Speech, physical, or occupational therapy: These therapies are designed to increase the child's functional abilities.

 

Social skills therapies: Run by a psychologist, counselor, speech pathologist, or social worker, these therapies are invaluable ways to build social skills and the ability to read verbal and nonverbal cues that is often lacking in those with Asperger's.

 

Medication: There are no medications to treat Asperger's syndrome itself, but drugs may be used to treat specific symptoms such as anxiety, depression, hyperactivity, and obsessive-compulsive behavior. Also some medications suggested by doctors to help aspergers are fluoxetine, clomipramine, dextroamphetamine, and methylphenidate.