“No one is going to go retrieve your kid when they’re floundering and say, “Hey, do you need some help?””
Some of the programs claim that they do set up a structure for this. Kid has to come in X times per week, and if they don’t show, then the advisors call/text, etc. Kids can still ignore the prompting if they want to.
I don’t have many alumni of these programs yet, so I don’t have evidence for most about whether they do what they claim to do. I have one parent whose child found fabulous success at Landmark.
“Your child is not going to magically be able to do in college things he couldn’t do as a high school student.”
This is a great principle across the board, not just for kids with ASD. I need to see success with smaller, easier tasks before I predict success with bigger, tougher ones.