ABSTRACT
The core difficulties of Asperger syndrome are exactly those which could be expected to lead to behavioural difficulties for a child.
The notion proposed by the TEACCH system – that people with autism operate from within a different ‘culture’ – is illuminating. In this sense, children on the autism spectrum do not ‘speak our language’, do not understand our ways of communicating and may need an ‘interpreter’. They may be seen as having extreme difficulty at times in ‘cracking the code’ of our way of being.
