NEW INFORMATION
OAR Releases Asperger DVD for College Professors
Arlington, VA, April 18--
The Organization for Autism Research (OAR) released
Understanding Asperger Syndrome: A Professor’s Guide,
a 12-minute video for use by college students with
Asperger Syndrome as a tool to educate their professors,
teaching assistants, and others about the disorder. OAR
produced the DVD in cooperation with the Global Regional
Asperger Syndrome Project (GRASP) and Pace University in
New York thanks to a grant from the Schwallie Family
Foundation. The video is available now for viewing and
download at no cost on OAR’s Web page,
www.researchautism. org/resources/ AspergerDVDSerie
s.asp
"The idea behind this series,” said Peter Gerhardt, Ed.D.,
OAR’s president, “is to have adults with Asperger
Syndrome in effect teach what it means to be an adult
with the disorder.”
To that end, the video features two people with Asperger
Syndrome, Michael John Carley from GRASP and Kiriana
Cownesage, a doctoral student at NYU. Dr. Gerhardt also
appears providing information on “reasonable
accommodations” in the college classroom. In addition to
being posted on OAR’s Web site, OAR will post it on
YouTube.com and produce DVDs to be available upon
request via the Web site by early June.
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