June 18, 2009
Higher Education and Asperger's Syndrome
Two years ago, one of my students came to my office and told me that she wanted to major in psychology. It was her second try at Agnes Scott College, having dropped out a decade earlier. During that time she was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, and she was back to try again, armed with knowledge about her diagnosis.
This time she's making it because she's getting the help she needs.
Asperger's syndrome, first listed in the American Psychiatric Association's
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