Asperger's Confounds Colleges

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

By ELIZABETH F. FARRELL

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...

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