Quiz: Test Your Interview Skills
Interviews can be far from easy, but there are lots of tips and tricks to perform well. Take this quiz to see if you know everything you need to know about your next interview!
Quiz: Are You Prepared to Ace College Academics?
The transition from high school to college can be a complicated one. You become a lot more responsible for handling your academic life. Take this quiz to find out if you know everything you need to know about college academics!
Neurodiversity Clubs: A Place for Acceptance, Advocacy, and Adjustment
There are a lot of new changes that come with starting college. You are in a different place, making new friends, and studying fresh subjects. A lot of students also seek out new activities, like joining a club or organization. However, going to a loud and crowded activities fair may be overstimulating to navigate while…
Quiz: How Do You Handle Tricky Job Situations?
Knowing what to do and say can be hard, inside and outside of the office. Take this quiz to see how you handle some of the tricky situation you can run into on the job!
How to Ask Professors for Extensions
All colleges have a department along the lines of Student Accessibility Services, which strives to create a barrier-free and equivalent environment for students with disabilities. Students are able to demonstrate independence and self-advocacy by discussing their needs with this department. Under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), certain accommodations are mandatory if requested by students.…
Quiz: Self-Advocacy
Take this quiz to see how much you know about being a self-advocate!
Finding Resources: Part Two
This is the second part to Kat Albee’s blog post Finding Resources. In the conclusion of her blog series, Kat includes additional guidance for how those in the autism community can continue to advocate for themselves. Using The Internet If you are reading this, then you have an advantage unique in all of human history. No, it’s…
Finding Resources
Self-advocate Kat Albee highlights ways in which those on the spectrum can be resourceful and hold onto a positive outlook in a variety of real-world situations. This is Part One of her post. Part Two will be featured in next week’s blog. Changing Your Mindset I recently read a memoir called Growing Up Yanomamo. It’s about…
Accepting Others’ Experiences
Self-advocate Kat Albee shares her knowledge on how to approach responding diplomatically in the blogosphere taking into consideration peoples’ differences and varying points of views. I was diagnosed at the age of 19 with a mild form of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and as someone directly affected by ASD, I like to consider myself an…
Leveraging Social Media
Stay Connected Using Social Media So you are off to college. Whether you live on campus or off, social media is a great way to stay connected with your friends and keep your social network intact. In your new environment, while you’ll want to maintain established friendships, it can be difficult to make new “in person”…
