Does the office of disability services also assist students with social issues?
Yes, I would say because it is certainly a big piece of college for many students is the social aspect. In my experience, often times it’s less about the academic part, then it’s about behavior in class, and getting along with other students in the residence halls, and also feeling a part of that college community. And those are the three areas that I see that students having difficulty with. Behavior in class can often be difficult for students on the autism spectrum, that I’ve had experiences with, in some instances may have a tendency to dominate conversation in class. So I work with the student and I work with the faculty very closely to help redirect that behavior, and to kind of come up with a behavior plan. And each quarter we have to revisit that and that’s fine, but it’s really for me, I check in with the professor regularly, I check in with the student regularly. For the one student in particular that I worked with, we came up with rules every quarter, and in some classes it
