Teaching Ideas and Freebies for Figurative Language Students with Asperger's are very literal in language, for instance if you say to them, good luck on your test. They will be fine. But beyond the actual meanings of words, then the student struggles to understand. Hence, instead, if you say: 'Go break a leg', they won't understand, after all...….. why you would want them to break a leg???!!! What do you do? You help them to understand figurative language. In fact, distinguishing between...