Yes - I have to back the others up here - punitive enviroment hasn't worked at school at all - made absolutley no difference - except worse behavior and lack of self-esteem / poor bad image. Gentle consistent time outs for compliance at home however, that's a diffrent thing.

School experience was so bad - that son started repeating the yelling /meltdown behavior with his dad this week when starting in on the currciulum for next year. After the tantrum and the realisation that it meant a return to school - he got back into "I love to learn" mode.

I'm actually surprsied the school is taking that appraoch with Aspie's. I thought there was tons of research to show that they are totally out of control and can't help a lot of their behavior - same as ADD kids. So why push them to conform to someone else's standards?