Educating children with Asperger syndrome with other children can result in clashes that call inclusive practices into question.
A manager in charge of provision for children with Asperger syndrome at a residential special school explains what he did when a boy with Asperger's told a group of children off for swearing and smoking
I WORK AT A SPECIAL SCHOOL for children with extremely challenging behaviour but we also cater for children with Asperger syndrome.
One of our problems is that children with challenging behaviour have fairly poor language skills and they often swear.
We have a child with Asperger syndrome who came to our school from an autistic school. He heard the other children swearing and so he told them it was wrong to swear. They then swore at him.
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