cover image: Identifying trends and supports for students with autism spectrum disorder transitioning into postsecondary : Définir les tendances actuelles et les soutiens requis pour les étudiants atteints de troubles du spectre autistique qui font la transition au palier postsecondaire

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Identifying trends and supports for students with autism spectrum disorder transitioning into postsecondary : Définir les tendances actuelles et les soutiens requis pour les étudiants atteints de troubles du spectre autistique qui font la transition au palier postsecondaire

27 May 2010

An examination of the literature relating to postsecondary students with ASD found very few articles that addressed the needs of these students either during the transition to postsecondary education or in terms of the support they require in postsecondary settings. [...] Secondary special education staff informed the researchers of this study that the numbers reported here “are only the tip of the iceberg.” They have been informed that more students with ASD will be attending Grades 7 and 8 in the near future, and this will mean that greater numbers will be sent to secondary school than in the past. [...] The goal of this exercise was to collect the numbers of students with ASD in the secondary system and, of those, the numbers who were on track to graduate with an OSSD. [...] Colleges and Universities Surveys were distributed to each disability office within the 43 publically funded colleges and universities in Ontario, with the goal of establishing the number of students identified with ASD and the supports the institution was currently providing for them (see Appendix B). [...] This revealed that regional characteristics are similar for both the school board divisions of the Ministry of Education and the regional boundaries of the Ministry of Training, Colleges and 9 – Identifying Trends and Supports for Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder Transitioning into Postsecondary Universities.
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Authors

Alcorn MacKay, Susan

Pages
47
Published in
Canada

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