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Repploy ASD Services
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Repploy is dedicated to breaking down the barriers for those on the Autism spectrum. Description Repploy, formed in 2011, is a Victorian based company which offers a ground breaking service through supporting individuals on the Autism Spectrum, their families, carers and educators. Our staff at Repploy understand, respect and support all our clients individual, social and emotional needs. We strive to identify strengths and provide tools and strategies to ultimately achieve independent life skills. As a company we identified a gap within the current services available to individuals on the spectrum as well as those supporting them. Repploy aims to break down these barriers. I am a mother of a child on the Autism Spectrum, Vice President of CASS (Casey Asperger Syndrome Support), have worked and am currently working with children, adolescents and adults with disabilities specialising in ASD. I have a strong and vested interest in achieving our goals and am dedicated to supporting individuals on the Autism Spectrum, their families, carers and educators. Trudy Cahill Director
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Friday, 19 July 2013
Teaching Aspie teens the art of ." Flexible thinking" can be an overwhelming thought to many parents of Teens and Tweens on the ASD spectrum.

Realistically it is one of the greatest survival tools you can teach them, it incorporates personal  responsibility,decision  making as well as the art of reading situations and scenarios.

How I hear you ask?

Firstly at every opportunity engage your teen in " Brainstorming " discussions about what should and can be done in a range of hypothetical situations.
Instead of telling your teen what you want or expect them to do in any given situation, give them the opportunities to establish different possible outcomes and pathways.
Discussing how and why they came to reach those decisions, if the logic or processing doesn't seem to flow, encourage your teen at those junctions to stop and think what the next stage should come up with a minimum of two scenarios and identify and follow the path to the desired outcome.

This allows them to establish thought patterns, creating their personal tapes for similar scenarios that may arise or them in their futures.
 

1 comments:

kaz264 said...

Thank you. I'll try this. :)