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[quote=Anonymous]We've been very happy so far with our HFA son who just started at UMBC. He is living on campus, but it seems that there are tons of commuters and many (most?) of the kids seem to go home on weekends. He does and I was worried it would make him stand out but when I go to pick him up the campus is deserted. He said his other suitemates go home too.

I've been impressed with his disability office and their support. He hasn't needed anything from them since school started -- we check his email and help make sure that he's following up on things and that's pretty much the biggest issue, but they indicated that more support could be provided and that's a relief. His classes are much smaller than I had expected -- three have 20ish kids in them.

We thought about having him commute but he doesn't drive and via public transport it was too complicated and time consuming. There's plenty of parking it seems. The bonus is as a DC resident you'll get $10K for the tag program so that's definitely nice. He's a very strong student and seems reasonably challenged and to like his classes. We're still working on encouraging him to be more social, but he seems happy and comfortable enough. I definitely recommend it!

I also like St. Mary's but obviously he couldn't commute.

I hate that we have to monitor his email, but checking it makes him anxious so that's the thing that works for now. He tries to check it everyday but gets stressed by it so we will continue until he can get a little more able to handle it. I say this just to say that we know our kiddos and that they can go to college but might need us to step in a little more than for a non SN kid. I can't begin to help him with his academics, but having a disability that makes communication a challenge gets in the way sometimes! [/quote]

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