Understanding Asperger Syndrome: A Professor's Guide

This video, published by the Organization for Autism Research, provides guidance for college level educators that will be teaching students with Asperger's Syndrome. The variety of ways that adults present with Asperger's syndrome is discussed as well as strategies for students and educators to manage both the academic and social experience of college. Accommodations required by the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 is also discussed. The video includes statements from a PhD student with Asperger's Syndrome and the executive director of Global and Regional Asperger Syndrome Partnership (GRASP), who also has the diagnosis. The recording runs 15:21 minutes in length.