How can I help him to manage his anger and improve his attention span & cooperate with his teachers?
Answer Hi Chui Har, You should tell the psychologist exactly what you have told me. I’m guessing your son has what is now called Asperger’s Syndrome. He does not understand social signals from other people in the intuitive way that you and I do. He does not realize that other people have thoughts and feelings like he does, so he treats them like objects. His inability to understand cause and effect (misbehavior and punishment) is one of the common symptoms. Direct teaching can overcome much of this but he must learn appropriate behavior for each new situation. He will have difficulty generalizing from one situation to another. For example: learning to share the truck in the sandbox won’t transfer to sharing the blocks in the classroom. Over time, he will learn more appropriate behavior and so behave better in more circumstances. Most of these kids are very bright with excellent memories. This helps them build a catalog of behavior to draw upon. It takes a long time, but he WILL learn.
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