Waiting...Waiting...Waiting! One of our first Lego Education Kits came in. Woo...Hooo! I found a great deal off of Ebay for a Lego Mindstorms NXT Education Kit and saved our team $130. The rest of the kits which were ordered from Lego Education have not arrived yet. Meanwhile, I am not sitting back doing nothing. I have gathered my team together. I have planned my lessons on how to learn robotics with the NXT's. I have started a facebook page to communicate with parents. I have also created a video (for visual learners) to help with our first social skills lesson, which will be about being a flexible thinking person. I used Xtranormal to make it. I would show you a preview, but I can't because the kids haven't seen it yet.
Why is being a flexible person important especially for kids with Aspergers? The play of a child with Aspergers is repetitive. They enjoy rituals and can prefer to do the same thing over and over again. They love sameness and are troubled by changes or unexpected things happening. When they interact socially with peers there is a lot of things going on that are unexpected since they are unable to control the behavior of the other children. For children with Aspergers the inability to be flexible and handle changes makes it very hard to interact with others on a social level. This can make teamwork, one of the first core values, a wreck just waiting to happen.
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