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Hi

My partner and I have a 17 year old who is high functioning enough to be considering uni next year. Good points - polite, well spoken, industrious (obsessive), caring, doing very well at college, can navigate on public transport and do most domestic tasks - cooking, cleaning, shopping. Areas for improvement - social connection (no friends), no experience of handling bank accounts, lack of interest in typical teen activities and naive in some of these areas, obsessive interest in one thing, generally anxious, inability to 'fit in' (and knows it), finds other people a bit of a mystery!

Does anyone have experience of launching a relatively high-functioning person to tertiary education or know organisations that do?

Ideally I'm looking to get them up to speed in all areas - health, emergencies, social life, finance etc so by the time they go, we can have some confidence they won't have too much of a melt down and can complete a degree and forge a happy life.

Thanks for any pointers...

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  • Good point. Thanks for that. Reading all this it becomes even clearer that we are probably worrying more about social and emotional issues rather than academic ones - but meeting a tutor before term starts would be a help, although I guess that will happen at interview and probably at the open day.

    There's not much info around, it seems, for 16+ higher functioning folk. There seems to be so much more about tots and small children, for whom there's more of an established pathway, even if not always easy to access.

    Best wishes..

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  • Good point. Thanks for that. Reading all this it becomes even clearer that we are probably worrying more about social and emotional issues rather than academic ones - but meeting a tutor before term starts would be a help, although I guess that will happen at interview and probably at the open day.

    There's not much info around, it seems, for 16+ higher functioning folk. There seems to be so much more about tots and small children, for whom there's more of an established pathway, even if not always easy to access.

    Best wishes..

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