Search courses · All instructors
SLHS 370: Adolescence and Young Adulthood in People with Autism
This course explores adolescence and young adulthood in people with autism. It will be primarily a lecture format with contributions from current college students with autism. Too often, experts in the field of autism dispense information about people with autism reflecting a neurotypical perspective focused on deficits. Although identifying deficits can be helpful initially to receive a diagnosis and early intervention services, there should be a conscious shift during later childhood that builds on areas of strength and emphasizes the gifts that people with autism bring to society. In order to understand how autism more accurately affects people, we will be reading books and articles that were either written by people with autism, have a person with autism as the narrator, or contrast the largely negative historical view of autism with a current, positive neurodiverse approach.
Not offered in the listed terms.
Catalog entryBrowse ClassesTextbooks (WWU Bookstore)
Prerequisites
SLHS 251 or Communication Sci & Disorders 251 or PSY 101 or SPED 360
Prerequisite tree
Each course's own prerequisites, down to the first courses in the chain.
From Banner's catalog for Spring 2027. Banner lists only the requisites it enforces, so check the catalog entry too.
Required by (1)
What it leads to
Courses that list it as a prerequisite, then the courses that list those, 2 levels deep.
- SLHS 380 Peer Mentorship for College Students with Autism
Syllabi and course websites
None listed yet.