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Classes start Wednesday at the Jersey City college where I teach: It’s a small college in a very urban setting. I’m not sure what the percentage of students on the spectrum at my college might be. (The noise level—-the college is on a major thoroughfare, Kennedy Boulevard—-was one reason that one Asperger’s student told me […]
The class mom in Charlie’s class has been sending out emails in preparation for their year end party. Charlie’s entire class is moving onto middle school and we’ve been planning a special ceremony and a party, with special (secret) presents for the teachers and therapists: It’s the boys’ last week at their elementary school, as […]
“College is a stupid idea” opines today’s Jezebel; over at The Atlantic, Professor X, a self-described part-time (evenings) adjunct instructor of English at “colleges of last resort,” says:
For many of my students, college was not a goal they spent years preparing for, but a place they landed in. Those I teach don’t come up in […]
Roaming in the bookstore in a nearby university town, I lingered over the tables of new non-fiction and poetry; the neat stacks of new literary criticism, linguistics, and social science (and found one called Echolalias which was a highly, highly theoretical study of a very, very real phenomenon in our life); the sale books. I […]
Peer mentors to help with organizing one’s day and replaying conversations for students who may not catch social cues. Training about autism and Asperger’s Syndrome for faculty and staff (in housing, in campus safety). These are just some of the ways that colleges and universities in Michigan are seeking to support college students on the […]
Christine recently left this comment on a November 30, 2007, post about autistic students going to college:
I have a son who is PDD/Asperger, but low normal on the IQ scale. He graduated from high school and can drive. He needs social skills and life skills training and desperately wants to get training or college courses […]
To be “in the Nation’s Service and in the Service of All Nations” is the “informal motto,” of Princeton University, where I went to college. On Tuesday, Princeton announced that it hopes to create an “international ‘bridge year’ program,” in which “would allow newly admitted undergraduates [can] spend a year of public service abroad […]
A new study from the Journal of Pediatric Nursing called I Have Always Felt Different reports on the experiences of sixteen college students (aged 18-25) who were diagnosed with ADHD as children. The study is by Assistant Professors Robin Bartlett and Mona M. Shattell, of the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
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