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Introduction 1 Chapter 1 Where Have You Been and Where Are You Going? 7 Chapter 2 Finding The Right College 27 Chapter 3 Applying for Admission 51 Chapter 4 Getting Your Student to Campus 63 Chapter 5 Laws Families Need to Know 79 Chapter 6 Who's Who on Campus 99 Chapter 7 The Incoming Freshman 109 Chapter 8 Working With Disability Services 121 Chapter 9 Academic Issues Your Student May Encounter 129 Chapter 10 Housing and Residential Life 141 Chapter 11 Student Health - Physical and Mental 163 Chapter 12 Social and Extracurricular Life 179 Chapter 13 Life after College 187 Conclusion 199 References 203 Recommended Readings 205
Jane Thierfeld Brown is Assistant Clinical Professor at Yale Child Study, Yale Medical School, Director of College Autism Spectrum and former Director of Student Services at the University of Connecticut School of Law. She has worked in Disability Services for 39 years. She holds an EdD from Columbia University, Teachers College. Dr. Brown consults with many families, students, school districts and institutions of higher education. Dr. Brown has appeared on Good Morning America, CBS News and NPR. She has co- authored Student with Asperger's: A Guide for College Professionals, (2009), along with many textbook chapters and articles. Dr. Brown is married and has three children, the youngest being a 26 year old son with autism. Dr. Lorraine Wolf serves as the Director of Disability Services and as Boston University's 504 Coordinator. She received her undergraduate degree from Hampshire College, with concentrations in Genetics and Bioethics. She received a 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. Dr. Wolf was a postdoctoral fellow in Clinical Neuropsychology at the Cornell University Medical College. 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). She co-authored Students with Asperger's Syndrome: A Guide for College Personnel (2009; 2017, Japanese translation; second US edition in preparation). Dr. Wolf holds faculty appointments as Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine and as Adjunct Associate Professor of Rehabilitation Sciences at the Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Boston University. She co-developed "Strategic Education for the Autism Spectrum," a widely adopted support model for students on the autism spectrum in higher education. Her research interests include attention and self-regulation in neurodevelopmental disorders and service delivery for college students with autism, attention deficit disorders and psychiatric disabilities. She enjoys scuba diving, adventure travel and her dogs.