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mother after spending years watching the domestic abuse between the mother and father got very ill himself because of the rapidity of the change in environment. He developed the need to vomit after every meal; he started sleep walking; many times his mother had to put him back to bed after he was found banging his head on the floor in his sleep, and basically it took him almost six months to settle into a new life (Oliver, 2006).

TREATMENTS
There is no cure for Aspergers Disorder, but skills training, counseling and helping a family understand the nature of the disorder can be instrumental in assuring a positive outcome for the patient. Asperger is a condition that lasts well into adulthood and there is no case evidence to support the idea that a person will "grow out" of the disorder, but treatments that play to the strength of an affected child will be helpful in ensuring that as the child moves into teenage and adulthood he learns to adapt more readily to the changes that growing up bring to a life (Christof & Kane, 1991).
Some Aspergers learn social skills through mimicry (Krantz & McClannahan, 1993). While in normal child development children learn their social skills through interaction with their peers. Because Asperger children do not have this ability and tend to stay on the outside of groups in an early childhood center or similar they are often deemed as loners as this then discourages other children from making overtures to them (Capps, Yirmiya & Sigman, 1992). However as the child gets older it is possible for him to learn to mimic social skills from his peers if he is in a situation where he is accepted for the way he is (Oliver, 2006).
Sensitivities to light and sound are two further problems experienced by Asperger children. Many children have difficulty in a mainstream classroom because the level of noise in a classroom makes it difficult for them to concentrate on their work. Likewise sensitivity to light, although alleviated by sunglasses can make the child stand out from his peers, causing further social isolation (Mesibov, 1984). Time management and the need to complete chores in their own time frame also causes problems especially older children at a high school level as they struggle to keep up with an increased workload. Although many Asperger children are very intelligent they do prefer to learn and complete tasks within a time frame that suits them and they tend to loose valuable self-confidence if they are forced to conform to a system

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