Grad schools in Canada

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Does anyone know of any really autism-friendly grad schools in Canada?? If not, I would also consider some states if you know of any REALLY good ones, but I would still prefer Canada (it's cheaper for me on my side of the border! )

York University in Toronto Canada has an ASD support group and ASD mentorship program. There is a lot of Autism related research being done at the university.............it has a pretty good psychology department. Also it is generally known as a school that's supportive of people with special needs/disabilities. I don't know about the grad schools specifically but I think this would be a good school to try. I'm doing my undergraduate degree at York. What do want to study in grad school?

The three most disability-friendly schools in Ontario are considered to be York, Guelph, and McMaster. However, I've just heard a horrible story today of a student with Down syndrome who got expelled from York because he or she needed a support person to accompany him/her everywhere. That's not right at all, but perhaps there is no other option but to choose the lesser of all evils.

I go to McMaster and they have a pretty good centre for students with disabilities, from what I've seen. Before I started at the school I went to a free 3 day workshop where I stayed in residence and went to talks and workshops about how to manage university with a disability. I get accommodations through the CSD for my classes, not for an ASD but for other disabilities. They offer a lot of support and there are groups I've participated in. I'm also transgender and have found that most everyone there is very accepting of that.

Thanks for the replies everyone! I was considering McMaster for the Religion and Social Sciences program (Religious Studies with an anthropological twist). I am REALLY not sure what I want to study anymore though, or what I want to do for the rest of my life. I would love to work in the field of autism, but I am questioning if that would really be impossible (I might be too autistic to actually be of help.....I really don't know....)

I never thought of York before, but I think I will look into that as well. Also, I was considering Montreal as well since it is closer to where I love (I'm in Eastern Canada). Does anyone known which would be more ASD friendly out of McGill and Concordia??

www.petersons.com is an amazing website to search for grad schools (in the US and Canada). Go to the homepage and click on the link to do a grad school search. You can search by discipline, degree, and location. So, for example, you could look for Master's degrees in accounting in Canada. Or, if you wanted to be even more specific, Master's degrees in accounting in, say, British Columbia. Petersons will give you a full list of all of the universities that fit your criteria. The only thing is that Petersons doesn't have a whole lot of info about the different schools. If you click on the universities in the list, you'll get a little bit of info about each one, but you really need to go on the university's website to find details about the program. But I used Petersons when I was searching for grad schools (in Canada) and I think it's a wonderful resource--very handy the way you can search for universities.

Thanks for the great link!!

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An autism friendly school is characterized by:

- An ability to adapt flexibly to the needs of individual children
- A willingness to provide a small group or individual learning opportunities
- Evidence of team planning
- Strong lines of communication between classroom staff and management
- A management structure that values the role of all staff decision making about individuals
- A programme of staff development that regularly addresses the need of children with asd
- Flexible use of splace
- Structured activies in place for break and lunch time
- Attitudes to parents that reflect thier anxieties and need for information and a willingness to make special arrangements for regular contact
- A willingness to use information from parents for planning
- A strong and active anti-bullying ethos
- A willingness to tailor disciplinary processes to individual need
- Evidence of a process for supporting staff in the management of challenging behavior
- A professional attitude to individual issues
- All staff welcome and respect as an equal member of the school
- Evidence of a readiness to seek and act on advice from support services
- A willingness to cooperatively work towards implementing educational plans such as IEP accomendations
- A willingness to review school provision and performance

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I would say from personal experience , you can't avoid Neurotypicals , thier just everywhere the true statistic for autistics in Canada is just only 200,000/33,000,000.