Showing posts with label adulthood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label adulthood. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Life at university with Asperger syndrome: a comparison of student and staff perspectives
Abstract
Although increasing numbers of students with disabilities
are accessing higher education, there is relatively little information about the
needs of students with Asperger syndrome (AS). Crucially, students themselves
have rarely been included in research examining their needs or the supports they
might find helpful.
Three focus groups, one with students with AS and two with
staff were conducted to explore the challenges, barriers and supports to
students' successful progress through one university in the UK. Thematic
analysis revealed some key differences between staff and student perspectives,
particularly with regard to impact of sensory sensitivities and daily life
difficulties on academic progress.
Students and staff also held differing views
about what is helpful, relating to disclosure of diagnosis and the value of
formal social supports. The study highlights the importance of developing
services beyond traditional academic supports that students with AS themselves
feel are valuable.
Thursday, August 14, 2014
Archived Webinar on Autism and Skills for Adulthood
In this video, Dr. Peter Gerhardt discusses the adaptive skills/skills of daily living that teens and young adults with autism spectrum disorder need to acquire to help them lead safe, productive, and fulfilling adult lives. These skills include safety, hygiene, employment, social competence, decision-making, self-management, leisure, and communication.
Watch the video here.
Watch the video here.
Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Archived Webinars - Thriving With Autism from Adolescence to Adulthood, Preparing for Independence and Growth!
Saturday (Pacific Time Zone)
Chantal Sicile-Kira
- Preparing For Transition to Adulthood
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- Van Hatchell
- Social Entrepreneurism in the Community
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- Nathan DeCorpo
- Autism, Independence and the Law
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- Brian King
- Building a Support Community for Interdependence and Growth
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- Janet Lawson and Dan Swearingen
- Autistry Studios - building a working ASD community
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Wendy Kross-Partridge
- Work Incentives Planning and Assistance-Taking the next step on your Employment Journey!
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- Greg Zibricky
- From our F.A.M.I.L.Y. to Yours - Creating a Financial Blueprint for Autism
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- Denise Cavadias
- Lifelong Learning Consulting
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- Marguerite Cohn
- Utilizing the DIR(R) Methodology to Prepare Teens with Autism for Adulthood
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- Mitchell Weisbrot CLU, ChSNC
- How to Protect Your Child Legally and Financially
- Go Now
Archived Webinars from Seattle Children's Autism Center
Autism 201: State of Autism in 2014
Autism 202: Navigating Insurance Benefits – What You Need to Know About Health Insurance Benefits for Assessment, Diagnosis and Treatment of AutismAutism 201: State of Autism in 2013
Autism 202: Addressing Challenging Behaviors – Strategies for Families
Autism 204: Supporting Speech, Language and Communication with Mobile Technology
Autism 205: Legal Planning for Individuals with Disabilities – Guardianship, Public Benefits and Estate Planning
Autism 206: Anxiety
Tuesday, August 5, 2014
Webinar - Teaching Independence: Preparing Your Secondary Students with Autism for Life Beyond School
Teaching Independence:
Preparing Your Secondary Students with Autism for Life Beyond School
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
Dr. Joel Arick will discuss evidence-based
strategies for teaching secondary students with Autism the critical skills
necessary for success in school, community and vocational settings. Learn how
to use task analysis, visual supports and behavioral strategies to improve
student independence through database decision making. See examples of
effective tools that assist instructors to conduct assessment, instruction,
data collection and progress monitoring.
Friday, August 1, 2014
For Hire: Dedicated Young Man with Downs Syndrome
Jamie is my son. He is 22 years old. He is a bright, gregarious, effervescent
young man with an amazing cataloguing memory and an insatiable intellectual
curiosity about the world — its people, its creatures, its nations, its
languages and (perhaps most of all) its culinary traditions. If it were possible
for him to travel everywhere on the inhabited globe, he would do it, and he
would try to ingratiate himself with his hosts, just as he does when he greets
the owner of our local Indian restaurant by bowing, hands clasped, and saying
"namaskar." (The owner, Sohan, is delighted by this.) Since graduation, he has
been looking for work. Jamie also has Down syndrome.
By the end of the year, though, Jamie had lowered his sights from "marine biologist" to "marine biologist helper." And by the end of eighth grade, when we met with all his teachers and aides and paraprofessionals to go over the Individualized Education Program that would chart his way through high school (good news: the high school French teacher agreed to have him in French 1 for two years and French 2 for two years!), when he was asked what he might do for a living when he graduated, he said dejectedly, "Groceries, I guess."
I'm not sure what I would have felt that day if I had known that he would have to settle for less than that.
Read more here.
By the end of the year, though, Jamie had lowered his sights from "marine biologist" to "marine biologist helper." And by the end of eighth grade, when we met with all his teachers and aides and paraprofessionals to go over the Individualized Education Program that would chart his way through high school (good news: the high school French teacher agreed to have him in French 1 for two years and French 2 for two years!), when he was asked what he might do for a living when he graduated, he said dejectedly, "Groceries, I guess."
I'm not sure what I would have felt that day if I had known that he would have to settle for less than that.
Read more here.
Monday, July 28, 2014
Survey for parents and adults with ASD
Survey: What Would Help You Take Part in Autism Research?
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