Hi everyone Im a mom of a 16 year old ASD son

He might find Marc Fleisher's books useful, eg. "Making Sense of the Unfeasible - My life journey with Asperger Syndrome" (Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2003). As an autobiography it does have useful insight into college/university life and trying to be independent. Personally I found it difficult to relate to some of his experiences, but that's the diversity of autistic spectrum lifestyles.

He published another book "Survival Stategies for People on the Autistic Spectrum" Jessica Kingsley 1967, which being very personal to him, the precriptive layout may not be easy to relate to, but it is an attempt to outline the sorts of things that crop up.

Also Birmingham does seem to have a small number of young adult support groups, leastways at the early stages of the Autism Act there were conferences where these groups were represented - don't know how well they've survived the recession. But they seemed to cater for young people on the spectrum going through college and first jobs.

I wish I could say colleges are all switched in to being supportive, but it is worth looking closely at the college's website to see what they claim they can do, then go in and test it.

He might find Marc Fleisher's books useful, eg. "Making Sense of the Unfeasible - My life journey with Asperger Syndrome" (Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2003). As an autobiography it does have useful insight into college/university life and trying to be independent. Personally I found it difficult to relate to some of his experiences, but that's the diversity of autistic spectrum lifestyles.

He published another book "Survival Stategies for People on the Autistic Spectrum" Jessica Kingsley 1967, which being very personal to him, the precriptive layout may not be easy to relate to, but it is an attempt to outline the sorts of things that crop up.

Also Birmingham does seem to have a small number of young adult support groups, leastways at the early stages of the Autism Act there were conferences where these groups were represented - don't know how well they've survived the recession. But they seemed to cater for young people on the spectrum going through college and first jobs.

I wish I could say colleges are all switched in to being supportive, but it is worth looking closely at the college's website to see what they claim they can do, then go in and test it.