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Do further education disability departments receive Autism training?

stranger

Some of you may have seen a thread by me in Living on the spectrum.

Basically, I had a meeting on Tuesday with disability services at college to see what help they could offer me. It ended up with them and my support worker deciding that I'm not Autistic and I'm just lonely and need counselling. (ok, the last bit is true; but for a completely different reason) The argument was based on the fact that she thinks her father has it and I'm nothing like him. I can think of many people on the spectrum who I'm nothing like. And it's because I also don't have a proper diagnosis. No-one has actually said I don't have it either.

The college are running a course on Autism in June. Should be interesting to see what they get wrong...

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  • longman said:

    So it doesn't surprise me that you've encountered someone whose only insight is what her Dad's like. Fact is many institutions have failed to take it seriously. They just provide note takers, extra time in exams, coloured paper handouts....supposedly to create a level playing field.

    They won't give me a note taker or coloured handouts. They claim it's an issue of cost and not needing a note taker. I've been to two different unis and a different college. (which I can't attend any more because of distance) I got a note taker everytime with no problem. Yes, I had to ask at the first uni; but they were happy to provide one with no fuss. And that was way before my Autism diagnosis.

    Not sure what I'm meant to do about note taking - I can't listen and write at the same time. I can only either write or listen. Not both. They have told me to use my dictaphone; but I need my notes in written form. And it's no good if I'm in class and ahve to refer to my notes.

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  • longman said:

    So it doesn't surprise me that you've encountered someone whose only insight is what her Dad's like. Fact is many institutions have failed to take it seriously. They just provide note takers, extra time in exams, coloured paper handouts....supposedly to create a level playing field.

    They won't give me a note taker or coloured handouts. They claim it's an issue of cost and not needing a note taker. I've been to two different unis and a different college. (which I can't attend any more because of distance) I got a note taker everytime with no problem. Yes, I had to ask at the first uni; but they were happy to provide one with no fuss. And that was way before my Autism diagnosis.

    Not sure what I'm meant to do about note taking - I can't listen and write at the same time. I can only either write or listen. Not both. They have told me to use my dictaphone; but I need my notes in written form. And it's no good if I'm in class and ahve to refer to my notes.

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