October 8, 2004

Asperger's Confounds Colleges

By ELIZABETH F. FARRELL

A surge of students diagnosed with an autism-related disorder poses new challenges

By the eighth grade, Stephen M. Shore had taught himself to play every instrument in his school's band. But seven years later, during his junior year at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, a run-of-the-mill academic assignment stumped him.

Mr. Shore, a double major in music and accounting, was assigned a research project on a topic of his choosing for his "Physics of Music" course. But

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