Starting April 2 with the World Autism Awareness Day, April is considered national Autism Awareness Month. It is a day for people to be reminded of people with autism, their struggles and how the community can help them to achieve. At Texas Tech, students with autism can seek support from different services available to aid them with academic success and campus life.
Teesha Low, academic counselor at Techâs Student Disability Services, said they have been working with students with autism to help accommodate these students better in the classroom environment.
âWe work with students with documented disabilities; they will apply through the office, and we will get them set up with classroom accommodations, as well as course and housing accommodations upon requests,â Low said. âAutism, just like other disabilities, is a spectrum disability. This means that no students with autism are similar; they are all different, unique students.â