Why Asperger's Syndrome and the Critical Focus Question

Asperger’s Syndrome has recently been brought to the forefront of my attention due to great number of young people who continuously cross my path in education. One of these young people captured my heart one morning, often this young man and I struggled to communicate and connect with each other. One day for some reason I asked him what was on his mind and he told me that he had joke book and he was excited that he had learned so many jokes to tell, for the next twenty minutes we spent sharing jokes with one another. My relationship with this young man was forever changed that morning and all because of changing my approach in communications and simply asking what was on his mind. All of my earlier attempts to connect with this young man were failures, simply because of my approach, all my motives were right but the method I used was all-wrong.

So after a lot of soul searching I’ve come to this critical focus question. Is there teaching and communications training for traditional classroom teachers who have mainstreamed students with Asperger’s Syndrome?