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| Title |
Designing a Summer Transition Program for Incoming and Current College Students on the Autism Spectrum: A Participatory Approach
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, February 2018
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00046 |
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| Authors |
Emily Hotez, Christina Shane-Simpson, Rita Obeid, Danielle DeNigris, Michael Siller, Corinna Costikas, Jonathan Pickens, Anthony Massa, Michael Giannola, Joanne D'Onofrio, Kristen Gillespie-Lynch |
| Abstract |
Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) face unique challenges transitioning from high school to college and receive insufficient support to help them navigate this transition. Through a participatory collaboration with incoming and current autistic college students, we developed, implemented, and evaluated two intensive week-long summer programs to help autistic students transition into and succeed in college. This process included: (1) developing an initial summer transition program curriculum guided by recommendations from autistic college students in our ongoing mentorship program, (2) conducting an initial feasibility assessment of the curriculum [Summer Transition Program 1 (STP1)], (3) revising our initial curriculum, guided by feedback from autistic students, to develop a curriculum manual, and (4) pilot-testing the manualized curriculum through a quasi-experimental pre-test/post-test assessment of a second summer program [Summer Transition Program 2 (STP2)]. In STP2, two autistic college students assumed a leadership role and acted as "mentors" and ten incoming and current autistic college students participated in the program as "mentees." Results from the STP2 pilot-test suggested benefits of participatory transition programming for fostering self-advocacy and social skills among mentees. Autistic and non-autistic mentors (but not mentees) described practicing advanced forms of self-advocacy, specifically leadership, through their mentorship roles. Autistic and non-autistic mentors also described shared (e.g., empathy) and unique (an intuitive understanding of autism vs. an intuitive understanding of social interaction) skills that they contributed to the program. This research provides preliminary support for the feasibility and utility of a participatory approach in which autistic college students are integral to the development and implementation of programming to help less experienced autistic students develop the self-advocacy skills they will need to succeed in college. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
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| United States | 4 | 57% |
| Unknown | 3 | 43% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 5 | 71% |
| Scientists | 2 | 29% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 137 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 13 | 9% |
| Student > Master | 13 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 13 | 9% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 7% |
| Other | 27 | 20% |
| Unknown | 49 | 36% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 21 | 15% |
| Social Sciences | 16 | 12% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 12 | 9% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 8 | 6% |
| Arts and Humanities | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 12 | 9% |
| Unknown | 63 | 46% |
Attention Score in Context
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