Asperger Syndrome: Success in the Mainstream Classroom

Streaming video - 2000

This program offers proven tips and techniques for integrating students with Asperger Syndrome and similar conditions into a mainstream classroom. It includes interviews with Psychologist Jed Baker (Director of the Social Skills Project), regular and special education teachers, parents, an instructional aide, and a child study team case manager/social worker – all describing specific steps that have worked the them in guiding and teaching middle through high school students. With the U.S. Centers for Disease Control now estimating one in every 45 U.S. children has an autism spectrum disorder, many teachers will likely discover more of their mainstream students need the types of approaches detailed in this program..