{"id":6538,"date":"2012-04-16T13:59:10","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T17:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=6538"},"modified":"2012-04-16T14:01:07","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T18:01:07","slug":"navigating-college-a-handbook-for-students-with-autism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/navigating-college-a-handbook-for-students-with-autism\/","title":{"rendered":"Navigating College &#8211; a Handbook for Students with Autism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Navigating%20College%20-%20a%20Handbook%20for%20Students%20with%20Autism\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 35px; border: 1px solid black; float: right;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/nltr\/img\/graduates.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"100\" \/>Headed to college?<\/p>\n<p>Worried about:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>getting accommodations,<\/li>\n<li>getting places on time,<\/li>\n<li>dealing with sensory issues in a new environment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Need advice on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>staying healthy at school,<\/li>\n<li>good eating and sleeping habits,<\/li>\n<li>dating and relationships,<\/li>\n<li>independent living,<\/li>\n<li>talking to your friends and classmates about your disability.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These can be complicated issues and big concerns for students on the autism spectrum. Get tips about how to make a smooth transition to college life from people who have &#8220;been there, done that&#8221; &#8212; get the new (free download) <strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Navigating College Handbook<\/span><\/strong>&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"color: #000000;\">Autistic Self Advocacy Network<\/span> has some advice and experiences to share from those who have been there.\u00a0 Their newly published <a href=\"http:\/\/navigatingcollege.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Navigating College Handbook<\/span><\/a> is an introduction to college developed in collaboration with Autism NOW with funding from the Administration on Developmental Disabilities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/navigatingcollege.org\/download.php\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Free download<\/span><\/a> is available here: <a href=\"http:\/\/navigatingcollege.org\/download.php\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">http:\/\/navigatingcollege.org\/download.php<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You will also find a link to this new Handbook on the following pages at Wrightslaw.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/college.index.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">College and Continuing Education<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/autism.index.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Autism Spectrum &#8211; Free Pubs<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/info\/self.advocacy.htm\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Self- Advocacy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headed to college? Worried about: getting accommodations, getting places on time, dealing with sensory issues in a new environment. Need advice on: staying healthy at school, good eating and sleeping <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/navigating-college-a-handbook-for-students-with-autism\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1271,230],"tags":[879,880,77],"class_list":["post-6538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autism","category-college-continuing-education","tag-autistic-self-advocacy-network","tag-navigating-college-handbook","tag-self-advocacy"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6538"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7014,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6538\/revisions\/7014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}