Neurodiversity & College: A Parent's Guide for Autistic Students - Couverture souple

Brown, Jane Thierfield; Wolf, Lorraine

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1963367189 ISBN 13 : 9781963367188

Editeur : Future Horizons Incorporated, 2025

Synopsis

Sending a son or daughter off to college is daunting and fear-provoking experience for most parents, but if your child has an autism spectrum disorder, the challenge is magnified many times over. Even high-functioning students with excellent academic preparation face difficulties in higher education, primarily related to communication, social skills, and sensory-based issues.

For many, the accommodations and special interventions that supported them in high school will no longer be available on a college campus. This parent-friendly book, made especially so because it is written by parents, who also are autism professionals, takes the fear and mystery out of the college experience. Learn how to select the right campus, how to work with Disability Services staff, what legal protections apply, how to prepare your son or daughter to be an effective self-advocate on campus, what assistance can be reasonably be expected from residence hall managers, faculty, and much, much more.

The second edition takes a detailed look at:

• Changes and challenges for parents in post-Covid college applications
• New and expanding college programs for autistic students
• The role of parents in the transition from advocating to supporting their student in self-advocating

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Jane Thierfeld Brown is the Director of College Autism Spectrum, former Assistant Clinical Professor at Yale Child Study, Yale Medical School and retired Director of Student Services at the University of Connecticut School of Law. She has worked in Disability Services for 43 years. She holds an EdD from Columbia University, Teachers College and received an honorary Doctorate of Letters from Muhlenberg College in 2020. Dr. Brown consults with many families, students, school districts and institutions of higher education. She has appeared on Good Morning America, CBS News and NPR. Jane has co-authored Students with Asperger's: A Guide for College Professionals, (2009) Published in Japanese 2017, the first edition of The Parent's Guide to College for Students on the Autism Spectrum, (2012) and Behavior Management and Self-Regulation (2012) along with many textbook chapters and articles. She received the Ron Blosser Dedicated Service Award from AHEAD in 2019. Dr. Brown is married and has three adult children, two of whom are neurodivergent. They are a Fragile X Family. She lives in Connecticut.

Dr. Lorre Wolf has worked in the disability field for more than 40 years. She received her undergraduate degree from Hampshire College, master's degree in General Psychology from New York University and a doctorate in Basic and Applied Neurocognition from the City University of New York. She served as Director of Disability Services and ADA/504 Compliance Officer at Boston University for 27 years, where she also held faculty appointments in psychiatry and in rehabilitation sciences. Prior to coming to Boston, she held faculty appointments in psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the Columbia University School of Medicine. Dr. Wolf has taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels and is a national and international presenter on disability topics in higher education. She co-edited the text Adult Attention Deficit Disorder: Brain Mechanisms and Life Outcomes (2001, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences) and was senior co-editor of Adult Learning Disorders: Contemporary Issues (2008, Psychology Press, Taylor and Francis). Dr Wolf also co-authored Students with Asperger's Syndrome: A Guide for College Personnel (2009; 2017, Japanese translation; second US edition in preparation). She lives outside of Boston.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Future Horizons Incorporated
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1963367189
• ISBN 13: 9781963367188
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 230
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible