Martial Arts – The Autistic VoiceMARTIAL ARTS HELP CHILDREN WITH ASPERGER SYNDROME Sandra Beale-Ellis, 2008 My interest in Autism, and in particular, Asperger’s Syndrome started many years ago, when a parent of a karate student, told me her son had been diagnosed with Asperger’s. My initial reaction was ignorance and following that class I read as much as I could on Asperger’s.