Are Autistic Students Traumatized in Schools?

• By: Marcia Eckerd, PhD Diagnostician, Therapist, Writer, and Speaker
• April 1st, 2022
• behavior, education, inclusion, neurodiversity, school, self-advocacy, self-regulation, Spring 2022 Issue, students, trauma
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According to a 2017 study, “77% of autistic high school students play a very limited role or no role at all in post-secondary planning compared to 47 % of students with intellectual disabilities and 27% of students with all other disabilities” (Gillespie-Lynch, K. et al., 2017). Why do so...