The Asperger Syndrome for Teachers

More and more teachers are confronted with autistic people as students.Next to the question What is autism? At school the main task is to integrate the autistic students into the class community.Especially in the school environment the benefits of a new social-psychological perspective become clear.With this perspective not only the peculiarities of autistic people and the resulting difficulties but also strengths and opportunities for promotion can be recognized.In a compact form the Asperger syndrome and the school-relevant aspects are presented by means of this new approach.