Asperger’s Syndrome South Africa

You have just been told that your child/teenager has been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome in South Africa. You are filled with anxiety and a baffling array of questions that leaves you in a state of shock and disbelief. How do I manage to raise a child with Asperger’s syndrome in South Africa? What help is out there? You search the internet for hours on end trying to find some sort of help here in South Africa. With the limited resources to consider living in South Africa, you fall further into a pit of hopeless and helplessness.

Asperger’s syndrome in South Africa is not a life sentence of limited resources or lack of adequate schooling system. At the Star Academy, we offer personalised intervention tailor made to fit your child with Asperger’s syndrome in South Africa. The programmes are designed to look at both the strengths and challenges that your child with Asperger’s syndrome have and foster a road to recovery.

Using an evidence-based treatment planned called Applied Behavioural Analysis, the Star Academy has helped many persons with Asperger’s syndrome in South Africa. People living with Asperger in South Africa have different support needs based on level of functioning, age, lifestyle and personal beliefs. The Star Academy support and nurture these differences and embrace the differences. Persons living with Asperger’s syndrome in South Africa are different but not less. And here at the Star Academy, we look at the child not the diagnosis. Each child with Asperger’s syndrome in South Africa are not made from the same cookie cutter neither should their interventions. The individualised intervention plan drawn up by trained and highly educated supervisors ensure that your child with Asperger’s syndrome living in South Africa is aimed for recovery and quality of life.
Asperger’s syndrome in South Africa has become part of the fabric of society. Many people, both ordinary and famous, rich or poor are equally diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome. Albert Einstein, Abraham Lincoln, Mozart to name a few have been diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome but their diagnosis didn’t hinder their successes. Their quirky absorptions in, say, physics, sporting stats or investment strategies add enormously to human advancement. Asperger’s syndrome in South Africa is equally beneficial to our South African context. Instead of drawing lines of division between us, let us embrace people with differences and utilise their talents to push society further.

The Star Academy are at the forefront of combating the stereotypes and discrimination with people living with Asperger’s syndrome in South Africa. We fight for the ones who feel a sense of hopelessness and helplessness. We fight for the parent who cannot see the future for their child with Asperger’s syndrome in South Africa. We fight for the children who feel different and out of place. Together we can make a difference! Every child deserves to the right interventions. Asperger’s syndrome in South Africa is recoverable!

– Nicole Mtshali