ELLAS offers a specialized academic support service designed to support university students, particularly those with neurodivergent disabilities such as autism or ADHD, in performing essential executive functioning, organizational, and communication skills.
At ELLAS, we pair a university student with a Professional Academic Support (PAS) specialist who works individually with that student to:
We measure success by three metrics:
“If you’ve met one autistic person, you’ve met one autistic person.”
“Autism is a broad spectrum of unlimited possible combinations and no two autistic people are the same.”
No program that is one-size-fits-autism is going to be comprehensive and customized enough to be effective. Every academic support has to be tailored to the specific roadblocks experienced by individual autistic students, agile enough to continue evolving as the autistic student develops in their college career and encounters different challenges, and streamlined enough not to add more time or stress because all college students are already pushed to their time and stress limits and autistic students tend to need more time to accomplish every task and are already functioning at a higher stress level than most neurotypical people can imagine.
Some universities have, or are developing, specific programs to support their growing number of autistic students, a few of them included in tuition but most of them incurring significant additional costs. Every effort and every program is better than nothing at all.
To learn more about how ELLAS can support your academic journey, please contact us for a free personalized consultation. Email zan.raynor@ellas.education to schedule your appointment.
In addition to customized academic support during university semesters, ELLAS offers consultations to strategize how to scaffold autistic students during high school to ease the transition to college as well as assistance navigating the college application process.
ELLAS also provides professional development to college and university professors to learn how to create courses that are more accessible to neurodivergent college students and how to support those students should they struggle in these courses.