Overheard: Helping Students with ASD Handle Real or Perceived Bullying
In an online chat, SLP Erin Mauldin discusses how to teach students with ASD strategies for understanding and responding to bullying.
Participant:
Would you give an example of backhanded bullying?
Erin
Mauldin: Backhanded bullying happens when someone uses kind
gestures or words with the intent of misleading their victim. A bully may say
something in a nice or kind manner but the message may be negative, which our
students who lack social skills are sometimes unable to interpret. A bully may
take advantage of their lack of understanding to trick them into a negative
situation.
Participant:
Is there any research about whether to talk with and support the bully in these
situations?
Mauldin:
A lot of the research I found was about talking to the victim of bullying and
providing proactive support to help them cope with bullying. But research does
also support talking with the bully. A lot of times bullies have something
negative going on in their own lives, so we certainly shouldn’t ignore them. I
don’t have specific examples of research supporting talking directly to the
bully. We can always refer these students to the school counselor for further
help.
Participant:
Would you comment on students dealing with ASD who may have developed an
inappropriate sense of what bullying was and who then become the “bullying
police?”
Mauldin:
Research shows that students with ASD who experience repeated bullying often
interpret non-bullying ...
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