THE STRESS OF THE UNIVERSITY EXPERIENCE FOR STUDENTS WITH ASPERGER’S SYNDROME

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Annotated by Sarah Weitzel and Samantha Rohrbaugh FULL CITATION ABSTRACT SUMMARY CRITIQUES AND LIMITATIONS FOLLOW-UP Glennon, T. J. (2001). The stress of the university experience for students with Asperger’s syndrome. Work, 17(3), 183-190. Introduction: College students, with or without disabilities, are faced with numerous stressful situations within the university environment. For an individual diagnosed with Asperger syndrome,…

LONELINESS, SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS, AND A BROADER AUTISM PHENOTYPE IN COLLEGE STUDENTS

Literature Review

Annotated by Kara Smith and Michael Hong FULL CITATION ABSTRACT SUMMARY CRITIQUES AND LIMITATIONS FOLLOW-UP Job, L. E., & White, S. W. (2007). Loneliness, social relationships, and a broader autism phenotype in college students. Personality and Individual Differences, 42(8), p. 1479-1489. doi:10.1016/j.paid.2006.10.021 Introduction: Impaired social functioning is a hallmark of autism spectrum conditions.   Objective: The purpose of…

COLLEGE STUDENTS ON THE AUTISM SPECTRUM: PREVALENCE AND ASSOCIATED PROBLEMS

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Annotated by Michael Hong, Kara Smith FULL CITATION ABSTRACT SUMMARY CRITIQUES AND LIMITATIONS FOLLOW-UP White, S. W., Ollendrick, T. H., Bray, B. C. (2011). College students on the autism spectrum: Prevalence and associated problems. Sage Publications and the National Autistic Society, 15(6), 683-701. Introduction: As more young people are identified with autism spectrum diagnoses without co-occurring intellectual…

LOCAL AUTISM POLICY NETWORKS: EXPERTISE AND INTERMEDIARY ORGANIZATIONS

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FULL CITATION ABSTRACT SUMMARY CRITIQUES AND LIMITATIONS FOLLOW-UP Parsons, B. M. (2016). Local autism policy networks: Expertise and intermediary organizations. Educational Policy, doi:10.1177/0895904816673743 Introduction: The increasing prevalence of diagnoses for autism spectrum disorder (ASD), now one in 68 children according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), presents a number of policy implications. In particular, many…

STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF THE ACCOMMODATION PROCESS IN POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION

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ABSTRACT One cause of the underrepresentation of students with disabilities in postsecondary education may be a lack of appropriate and effective accommodations (e.g., West et al., 1993). This study hypothesized that ineffective and inappropriate accommodations result from an accommodation selection process that focuses on disability type rather than students’ contextual and functional needs. Quantitative and qualitative…