Asperger Syndrome In The Book House Rules By Jodi Picoult
House Rules
Book Review Draft
Asperger syndrome (AS) is a developmental disability that falls on the autism spectrum. Children with Asperger syndrome usually have trouble with social skills, common sense, and change (Williams, 1995.) Although AS is on the autism spectrum, children with AS are usually on the high functioning side of the spectrum. Williams (1995) describes the difference between low and high functioning kids with AS as, lower functioning children with autism live in a world of their own, but higher functioning children with autism live in our world but in their own way. I was able to better understand this by reading Jodi Picoult’s book House Rules. The main subject of the book is the boy Jacob, who has AS; however, the …show more content…
Emma’s husband left shortly after Jacob had been diagnosed because he couldn’t handle everything that was going on, leaving Emma to raise him alone. She talks about how it’s difficult and how she threw herself into doing everything she could to try and help him adapt to the world. She doesn’t have any friends because none of them could handle Jacob’s behaviors and tantrums. She’s dedicated her life to trying to help Jacob, she works from home, and is very active with fixing his IEP’s, she also acts as a guardian when they go out and someone gives them looks. She protects her son very …show more content…
My best friend’s brother Aidan is in third grade and was born with Asperger syndrome. When I observed him in class last year I picked up some tips to help me in the future. I learned that it really is best to avoid sarcasm, I never really understood until I observed him how much children with AS don’t understand sarcasm. Aidan has asked the teacher if he could look for his pencil sharpener in his backpack but when he couldn’t find it after a few minutes the teacher said “Aidan! What’re you searching for gold in there?!” clearly joking around, but Aidan didn’t pick up on the sarcasm and had responded “No…I told you I was looking for my pencil sharpener.” His teacher also gave me some tips. She said that at the beginning of the year everyone knew Aidan was different and they left him out of activities because they thought he was weird. So one day when Aidan was out of the room she confronted the class and told them that she will not tolerate their behavior. She told them that although Aidan may be different in some ways he’s just like everybody else, and how would they feel if they got left out of activities, and she said after that little talk she had no more problems with everyone being mean to
Book Review Draft
Asperger syndrome (AS) is a developmental disability that falls on the autism spectrum. Children with Asperger syndrome usually have trouble with social skills, common sense, and change (Williams, 1995.) Although AS is on the autism spectrum, children with AS are usually on the high functioning side of the spectrum. Williams (1995) describes the difference between low and high functioning kids with AS as, lower functioning children with autism live in a world of their own, but higher functioning children with autism live in our world but in their own way. I was able to better understand this by reading Jodi Picoult’s book House Rules. The main subject of the book is the boy Jacob, who has AS; however, the …show more content…
Emma’s husband left shortly after Jacob had been diagnosed because he couldn’t handle everything that was going on, leaving Emma to raise him alone. She talks about how it’s difficult and how she threw herself into doing everything she could to try and help him adapt to the world. She doesn’t have any friends because none of them could handle Jacob’s behaviors and tantrums. She’s dedicated her life to trying to help Jacob, she works from home, and is very active with fixing his IEP’s, she also acts as a guardian when they go out and someone gives them looks. She protects her son very …show more content…
My best friend’s brother Aidan is in third grade and was born with Asperger syndrome. When I observed him in class last year I picked up some tips to help me in the future. I learned that it really is best to avoid sarcasm, I never really understood until I observed him how much children with AS don’t understand sarcasm. Aidan has asked the teacher if he could look for his pencil sharpener in his backpack but when he couldn’t find it after a few minutes the teacher said “Aidan! What’re you searching for gold in there?!” clearly joking around, but Aidan didn’t pick up on the sarcasm and had responded “No…I told you I was looking for my pencil sharpener.” His teacher also gave me some tips. She said that at the beginning of the year everyone knew Aidan was different and they left him out of activities because they thought he was weird. So one day when Aidan was out of the room she confronted the class and told them that she will not tolerate their behavior. She told them that although Aidan may be different in some ways he’s just like everybody else, and how would they feel if they got left out of activities, and she said after that little talk she had no more problems with everyone being mean to