Learning strategies that demonstrate positive academic growth for a student with Asperger’s Syndrome: A family’s journey
Document Type
Oral Presentation
Campus where you would like to present
SURC Ballroom C/D
Start Date
15-5-2014
End Date
15-5-2014
Keywords
Asperger's Syndrome, Learning Strategies
Abstract
Navigating the public school system can be detrimental to the mental health of a student with Asperger’s syndrome (AS). Support from other students, teachers, and administrators is limited for these students with AS, which escalates the AS student’s stress and behaviors, creating a huge need for the use of coping skills and learning strategies. The end result is the student with AS feeling a need to continuously switch schools or even give up and withdraw. Parents tend to blame the school in general, and hope that a new school will have the empathy and understanding the student with AS needs. The researchers will demonstrate how the family chose to change from a traditional academic high school in exchange for a non-traditional online high school, and how they further implemented learning strategies based on current research methodology and external support systems to positively affect the student’s academic growth and development. The learning strategies that the family applied will be illustrated from the point of view of the high school student with AS, his sister, who tutors and supports him, and also from his mom, who is his main support system and high school learning coach.
This presentation received a People's Choice Award for Best Poster Presentation, 2014.
Recommended Citation
Gilbert, Jamie; Gilbert, Meghan; and Gilbert, Dylan, "Learning strategies that demonstrate positive academic growth for a student with Asperger’s Syndrome: A family’s journey " (2014). Symposium Of University Research and Creative Expression (SOURCE). 156.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/source/2014/posters/156
Poster Number
27
Additional Mentoring Department
Special Education
Learning strategies that demonstrate positive academic growth for a student with Asperger’s Syndrome: A family’s journey
SURC Ballroom C/D
Navigating the public school system can be detrimental to the mental health of a student with Asperger’s syndrome (AS). Support from other students, teachers, and administrators is limited for these students with AS, which escalates the AS student’s stress and behaviors, creating a huge need for the use of coping skills and learning strategies. The end result is the student with AS feeling a need to continuously switch schools or even give up and withdraw. Parents tend to blame the school in general, and hope that a new school will have the empathy and understanding the student with AS needs. The researchers will demonstrate how the family chose to change from a traditional academic high school in exchange for a non-traditional online high school, and how they further implemented learning strategies based on current research methodology and external support systems to positively affect the student’s academic growth and development. The learning strategies that the family applied will be illustrated from the point of view of the high school student with AS, his sister, who tutors and supports him, and also from his mom, who is his main support system and high school learning coach.
This presentation received a People's Choice Award for Best Poster Presentation, 2014.
Faculty Mentor(s)
Tsai, Shu-Fei