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[Lit Review] Supporting students with Asperger’s Syndrome on college campuses: Current practices
Supporting students with Asperger's Syndrome on college campuses: Current practices Annotated by Sarah Weitzel and Samantha Rohrbaugh View/Download as PDF Full CitationAbstractSummaryCritiques and LimitationsFollow-Up Barnhill, G. (2016). Supporting students with...![[CAN Do College] The experience of a young college student diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome after he enrolled at FIU](https://sp-ao.shortpixel.ai/client/to_webp,q_glossy,ret_img,w_1080,h_675/https://collegeautismnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/FIULogo_V_CMYK.jpg)
[CAN Do College] The experience of a young college student diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome after he enrolled at FIU
It’s hard to explain why college didn’t work for me. First thing that comes to mind is that I was taking too many classes at the same time. And these were difficult classes. Too much at once. When I first enrolled, I signed up for 5 classes. I ended up dropping them....
[Research] CAN Executive Director Brad Cox receives $300,000 National Science Foundation grant to study autism in STEM students
A three-year, $300,000 award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will allow Dr. Brad Cox (Executive Director of the College Autism Network and Associate Professor of Education at Florida State University) to examine how autism-related characteristics influence...
[Lit Review] The experience of anxiety in young adults with autism spectrum disorders.
The experience of anxiety in young adults with autism spectrum disorders. Annotated by Samantha Rohrbaugh, Sarah Weitzel, and Pei Hu ; Anxiety is known to be common among young adults with autism spectrum disorders (ASD), yet little is known about the nature of their...
[Lit Review] Indicators of Postsecondary Employment and Education for Youth With Disabilities in Relation to GPA and General Education
Taking required courses for postsecondary education and receiving high grades are important, but alone do not give a clear picture of whether students with disabilities will be successful in post-school academic or employment settings. Assessing non-academic skills related to employment and further education can complete this picture of skills students with disabilities will need after leaving high school. Click here to read more!
[Lit Review] A Report on Using General-Case Programming to Teach Collateral Academic Skills to a Student in a Postsecondary Setting
To be successful in university courses, students with intellectual disabilities must have a set of collateral academic skills. Collateral academic skills refer to effective strategies that enable students to access course information and to meet the class requirements outside of course content. Overall students with intellectual disabilities have a hard time learning and generalizing new skills. Systematic instruction and inclusion can help. Click this link to read the full annotation.
[Lit Review] Autism after adolescence: Population-based 13- to 22- year follow-up study of 120 individuals with autism diagnosed in childhood
Out of 120 participants, the outcome was poor in 78% of the cases. In this very emotional and educational study, six of the participants had died at the time of follow-up, and six declined participation. Click this link to read more about the unbelievable statistics.
[Lit Review] Transition from School to Adulthood for Youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder: What we Know and what we Need to Know
Parents and teachers may observe depressed mood, anxiety, heightened levels of inappropriate behavior, and victimization by peers in adolescents who have ASD… Overall, youth with ASD reported lower rates of self-determination and satisfaction than other youth with disabilities. Click this link to read the full annotation.