Advice RE: ADHD son with serious struggles

GAMom3
Thu, 13 Aug 2015 15:36:41 +0000

Hi Missypie,

I want to thank you for the many valuable postings I have read here on CC regarding your and your son’s experiences. I have a son who is a high school senior and has Aspergers, ADHD, and mild anxiety, and unfortunately has poor executive functioning. Though he has a strong GPA and great SAT scores, we thought he might have to live at home and go to community college, and despaired of him ever being able to attend a four-year college and live on campus. Thanks to this website and the postings by you and others who’ve been through this before, we learned about colleges with ASD-support programs. We are most interested in Western KY, UT-Chattanooga, and UA-ACTS at Alabama. I know that your son ended up at ACTS and you were happy with the program. Do you believe it would help a student coming straight from high school? Is the program structured enough and supportive enough for a kid with executive functioning and motivation problems? Alabama has such a huge campus and huge student body, I wasn’t sure it would work for an Aspergers kid. I’d appreciate any advice you have for us!