Ste83ph
Active Member
Hi all,
I work with teenagers with Aspergers. I come on here from time to time for advice from you guys.
So, I'm working with a guy (I'll call him Tim), he's doing his GCSEs, he's pretty independent and has good friends. The difficulty he's having is with coping with school peers who disrupt lessons. He is very very motivated to learn. There are one or two other boys in his class who will call out or say silly things. Tim thinks they do this because they're bored and trying to get a reaction from others. Tim says the other kids in the class are able to ignore this and carry on with work but Tim finds that near impossible. I should say, all the kids are Aspies. He's struggling to cope with the disruption.
My thoughts are that being able to tolerate annoying people is a pretty helpful life skill. So I guess my question is, have other people experienced this? Is there anything that helped you cope better with irritating people in lessons? Any other thoughts welcome... Maybe he should be expected to put up with it at all?
Thanks,
Steph
I work with teenagers with Aspergers. I come on here from time to time for advice from you guys.
So, I'm working with a guy (I'll call him Tim), he's doing his GCSEs, he's pretty independent and has good friends. The difficulty he's having is with coping with school peers who disrupt lessons. He is very very motivated to learn. There are one or two other boys in his class who will call out or say silly things. Tim thinks they do this because they're bored and trying to get a reaction from others. Tim says the other kids in the class are able to ignore this and carry on with work but Tim finds that near impossible. I should say, all the kids are Aspies. He's struggling to cope with the disruption.
My thoughts are that being able to tolerate annoying people is a pretty helpful life skill. So I guess my question is, have other people experienced this? Is there anything that helped you cope better with irritating people in lessons? Any other thoughts welcome... Maybe he should be expected to put up with it at all?
Thanks,
Steph