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Asperger’s Syndrome is a disability that many teachers may come across throughout their teaching experience. Their responsibility to be aware of the teaching strategies and knowledge goes along with teaching a child in an appropriate manner. A child with any disability needs an equivalent education as well as any other. With the education provided to the teachers of tomorrow, will guarantee an improvement in how we teach the children for their future. Asperger’s is a syndrome that is also known as Autistic Psychopathic, which is a persuasive development disorder, characterized by severe and substantial impairment in social interaction, development of restricted and repetitive patterns of behavior, interests, and activities. These following characteristics result in clinically significant impairment in a social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning (Simpson 1997). Characteristics often associated with autism are engaged in repetitive activities and sterotyped movements, resistance to environmental change or change in daily routines, and unusual responses to sensory experiences. Asperger’s disorder is a milder variation of an Autistic Disorder. Both are in fact subgroups of a larger diagnostic category