What is Asperger’s/Prevalence Rates Asperger’s Syndrome is on the “high-functioning” end of the autism spectrum of disorders, a person with Asperger’s has a high or above average IQ, will get fixated on a single subject, and has low quality communication and social skills. Due to these low quality communication and social skills, Asperger children often deal with mistreatment at home and bullying in the school environment. Typically, children with Asperger’s syndrome want to make friends, but fall short to socialize successfully with their same age peers, this unsuccessful socialization can lead to withdrawal and asocial behavior (The Brain Injury Association of Queensland, " Asperger’s syndrome - Communication Issues", 2008). These unsuccessful
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Mindfulness is an intervention that will benefit Valerie’s impulsivity with her excited emotions to share all her ideas and answers in class. Since in Asperger syndrome children thoughts, behaviors, emotions, and social interactions are what is impacted the most, the intervention that is in mind needs to be a strategy that will attempt to connect and work on each of these lower developed areas. Knowing that the limbic system, which controls the emotions, memory, and responses, is one of the main areas of concern in an Asperger child and knowing mindfulness helps regulate those responses, then we know that there is a chance that mindfulness is a good first start in tackling this behavior. The areas of the brain that are going to benefit the most from a mindfulness based practice are the amygdala, hypothalamus, and the …show more content…
Fletcher, Schoendorff, and Hayes (2010) stated that the current issue is that researchers in neuroimaging are not looking at the proper definitions of what they want to be looking for when looking at a brain practicing mindfulness and something else (i.e. compassion) in the brain. If there is a study to be conducted, then there would need to be focus on the limbic system area of the brain and the benefits that the mindfulness based practices could have on those areas. For this specific case, Valerie could possibly benefit emotionally and socially to an intervention that focuses on her ability to react and respond to an excitable situation in the classroom
Mindfulness is an intervention that will benefit Valerie’s impulsivity with her excited emotions to share all her ideas and answers in class. Since in Asperger syndrome children thoughts, behaviors, emotions, and social interactions are what is impacted the most, the intervention that is in mind needs to be a strategy that will attempt to connect and work on each of these lower developed areas. Knowing that the limbic system, which controls the emotions, memory, and responses, is one of the main areas of concern in an Asperger child and knowing mindfulness helps regulate those responses, then we know that there is a chance that mindfulness is a good first start in tackling this behavior. The areas of the brain that are going to benefit the most from a mindfulness based practice are the amygdala, hypothalamus, and the …show more content…
Fletcher, Schoendorff, and Hayes (2010) stated that the current issue is that researchers in neuroimaging are not looking at the proper definitions of what they want to be looking for when looking at a brain practicing mindfulness and something else (i.e. compassion) in the brain. If there is a study to be conducted, then there would need to be focus on the limbic system area of the brain and the benefits that the mindfulness based practices could have on those areas. For this specific case, Valerie could possibly benefit emotionally and socially to an intervention that focuses on her ability to react and respond to an excitable situation in the classroom