Asperger Syndrome Case Study

Introduction
Development theories abound from Erik Erikson’s eight stages of personality, Sigmund Freud’s components of personality and the psychosexual stages, Lawrence Kohlberg’s moral development, Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, to Lev Vygotsky’s theory of social constructivism regarding the development of human beings from birth to adulthood. However, it is striking that the focus is placed on what seems to be normal progression and development. It is important to note, that the term “normal” is a social construct that indicates a societal acceptance of desired set of skills and behaviors within an acceptable range. Humankind must change the meaning of the word normal to a more accepted and less limiting connotation, to mean

Throughout this stage, children with Asperger syndrome will exhibit increased limited or inappropriate social interactions becoming more focused on self rather than others, and inability to understand social/emotional issues or nonliteral phrases. The concrete operation stage is the first opportunity to identify children with Asperger syndrome as the markers become more noticeable and prominent. Children with Asperger syndrome will spend much of their cognitive development here beyond the suggested 12 year old parameter. It will take extra time for children with Asperger syndrome to fully develop the ability to think more logically and flexible, become less centered around self, and to understand that others do not always know how they are feeling or what they may be thinking. Schema in this stage become more difficult to construct and children with Asperger syndrome struggle with the ability to assimilate and accommodate new