This month I wanted to focus on issues related to college students with ASD. In April, the UC Riverside SEARCH Center held an open event called, "Autism goes to college: What this means for UCR." We ...

Scholarships for college are often very competitive and reliant on metrics like SAT scores and GPAs to select winners. This can be a barrier to students with autism seeking scholarships to support ...

In the past five years, educators have seen a surge of college students diagnosed with autism and other neurological differences. In response, schools have adopted a variety of strategies to ...

With as many as one in 88 children now being diagnosed on the autism spectrum, most of the focus has been on early childhood education. "You don't find as much about kids who are going into college," ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Brian Schnelle receives his college diploma from Trevecca Nazarene University President Dan Boone. (Credit: Trevecca Nazarene ...

Thirty years ago it was rare for a student with ASD to enter college. But over the past decades, there has been much improvement in the detection and awareness of ASD in children. Now, with the ...

College students with autism have dramatically higher rates of anxiety and depression compared to their peers, a new study says. Nearly two-thirds (65%) of college students with autism suffer from ...

Kieran Barrett-Snyder was a star student at his high school on Long Island in New York. He had a gift for mathematics and science, and was accepted into all seven of the colleges he applied to. He ...

Photo courtesy of Brooke Simtob. There is a lot to know about autism in our society today; I would know, I had to learn after I was diagnosed with autism at 17 years old. There are so many stereotypes ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Autism and transgender or gender nonconforming identity increased odds of suicidal ideation and attempts. The ...

Correction: A previous version of this story had an incorrect byline. Charlotte West of The Hechinger Report wrote the story. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – Jared Jellicorse made the dean’s list in his first ...