College Programs and good colleges...

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I at least know of two programs designed to assist students with AS at college. One is at University of Alabama in Birmingham. The other, the orignal as far as I know and 6 years old, is at Marshall University in Huntington WV.

As far as good colleges with disability support staff, University of Alabama in Huntsville has better engineering and science programs than the above schools and has a disability support program that is becoming taylored towards ASD students.

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Went to college well before any assistence was ever provided for ASD students. UAH is a good school.

Highly recommend going to a school with a clear and real AS program (not just some fluff program for show that some administrative person threw together with slides and then printed out a brochure for). You can really get pushed around in college because student rights are almost impossible to enforce if violated by an college employee.

Best thing is a good private school. Since private colleges can be sued, they are less prone to harboring those kind of problems that result in hidden pockets of abuse existing for individual students.

Another thing is that having a school that has good facilities and comfortable campus. At UMD, the school is so hostile to commuter students that if you have no dorm room, you have to carry everything with you all day and there is really no comfortable place anywhere to study except for libraries where you can't have food, etc. So if you do an all-day study, you had to pack everything up and move around all day, just to eat, etc. Hauling everything on your person all day was pretty tough. It was very important for me to feel organized and to have everything I needed, or I couldn't focus. If organizing my things and moving around during the day was too complicated, I couldn't do any work.

You've come up against that, too!--I thought I was the only one. Oddly enough, one of the things that helped me the most wasn't guidance counseling, relaxation training, or even private testing rooms... it was a simple $15 locker rental where I could dump my things during the day!