Back Self-determination has been shown by research to be a strong contributing factor in success in navigating university and developing advocacy skills. Working on these skills might help a student who is autistic improve their academic outcome while on campus.
Background
- Know Yourself: Understanding your personal strengths, weaknesses, needs, preferences, and the environments in which you operate.
- Value Yourself: Developing a positive self-concept, recognizing your rights and responsibilities, and accepting yourself.
- Plan: Setting achievable goals, planning actionable steps, anticipating outcomes, and visually rehearsing your path to success.
- Act: Communicating your needs, taking risks, accessing resources, negotiating, and persisting through challenges.
- Experience Outcomes and Learn: Comparing your actual outcomes to your expected outcomes, celebrating success, and learning from your experiences to adjust future plans.
What to do next?
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Practical tips
Mind-map some answers to some of the questions above.
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About ASC
The ASC centre can help guide you with this. Apart from academic help tutors can help you to set goals and build skills using mind-mapping to aid you in developing your strengths in situations that may arise on campus ie group work, presentations, problem solving and how to approach your learning which in turn can help you going forward with advocacy, life skills and in career preparation/development.
Additional information
SETU UniMAAP 8 week self development programme for ADHD but can help students who are autistic and have ADHD as well – contact studentcounselling.wd@setu.ie or scan the code