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Apologies for haste. We are endlessly subject to dissertation requests, which is how your original post appeared, owing to the reference to a project.

But you should check the "community rules" about disclosing names and giving links, and ask the moderators if it is OK.

Normally if you are providing a link to a resource for others you should be OK.

Study at university with autism remains tricky. A lot of the information on support is still grounded in sources like Jamieson and Jamieson's "Managing Asperger Syndrome at College and University" David Fulton Publishers 2004.

The problem with these texts is they were written when there were hardly any known diagnosed students on the spectrum attending university. One book, seriously aimed at helping lecturers in environmental science, was built entirely around one asperger student in one Geography Department!

More than ten years on we ought to know so much more but there is a lack of modern books on this. So your experience is valuable.

The other problem is that most universities have grasped the Social Model of Disability, but have never really explained how to make a difference for students on the autistic spectrum. This involves little gestures - ramps for wheelchair users, serif free text on coloured paper for handouts, note takers and extra time in exams. No-one has really given any serious attention to what social model adjustments would help people on the spectrum.

So again your insight would be useful.

There is a lot you and others going through the university system can do to try to improve the way universities address autism.

Apologies for haste. We are endlessly subject to dissertation requests, which is how your original post appeared, owing to the reference to a project.

But you should check the "community rules" about disclosing names and giving links, and ask the moderators if it is OK.

Normally if you are providing a link to a resource for others you should be OK.

Study at university with autism remains tricky. A lot of the information on support is still grounded in sources like Jamieson and Jamieson's "Managing Asperger Syndrome at College and University" David Fulton Publishers 2004.

The problem with these texts is they were written when there were hardly any known diagnosed students on the spectrum attending university. One book, seriously aimed at helping lecturers in environmental science, was built entirely around one asperger student in one Geography Department!

More than ten years on we ought to know so much more but there is a lack of modern books on this. So your experience is valuable.

The other problem is that most universities have grasped the Social Model of Disability, but have never really explained how to make a difference for students on the autistic spectrum. This involves little gestures - ramps for wheelchair users, serif free text on coloured paper for handouts, note takers and extra time in exams. No-one has really given any serious attention to what social model adjustments would help people on the spectrum.

So again your insight would be useful.

There is a lot you and others going through the university system can do to try to improve the way universities address autism.