Early intervention: The best way to proceed is to find a skilled specialist who can evaluate and refer him for appropriate services. Social skills are important to address intensively and early, i.e. with group skill training and individual therapy and coaching. Other associated symptoms may be alleviated with proper medication management as well. You should look into other resources, e.g. Autism advocacy online.
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Aspergers: It is important that he understands that his main problem with interacting with his peers is being able to read facial expressions. Just like learning words to be able to read books, he will need to memorize basic facial expressions. According to a recent study, there are 21 different facial expressions. He needs to learn these and the emotions behind them for appropriate response. He can do this
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