Providing support for students on the autism
spectrum and the schools and colleges they attend.

OUR TEAM

Co-director:
Higher Education and Autism Spectrum Disorders, Inc.
Jane Thierfeld Brown is Director of Student Services at the University of Connecticut School of Law. She has worked in Disability Services for 29 years. Dr. Brown received her B.A. from the University of Rhode Island in Speech Pathology. While coordinator of disability services at URI she received her M.S. in Counseling and M.A. in Education. She holds an Ed.D from Columbia University, Teachers College. At Barnard College she directed a federal grant program on women with disabilities in higher education. Dr. Brown's main research interests are students with Asperger's Syndrome in higher education and students with disabilities in high-stakes graduate programs. She consults at many higher education institutions and is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences on Asperger's Syndrome. She has a book in progress, A Professional Guide to Students with Asperger's Syndrome in Higher Education, to be published in 2008.


Co-director:
Higher Education and Autism Spectrum Disorders, Inc.
Lisa King obtained her Master's Degree in Education from the College of William and Mary and has worked with students with disabilities in K12 and postsecondary education environments for 20 years. As a Disability Specialist in higher education she has worked extensively with students with Aspergers and Autism Spectrum Disorders. Under the guidance of national experts, Jane Thierfeld Brown, Ed.D. (UCONN) and Lorraine Wolf, Ph.D. (Boston U), Ms. King led a two year pilot program at the University of Minnesota implementing a new model of service: Strategic Education for Asperger Students (SEAD). She is Co-Director of Higher Education and Autism Spectrum Disorders, Inc. an organization for families, professionals, and colleges on issues regarding students with ASD and is a frequent presenter and trainer, locally and nationally on topics related to best practices for working with students on the spectrum in higher education settings


Consultant:
Higher Education and Autism Spectrum Disorders, Inc.
Lorraine Wolf received her undergraduate degree from Hampshire College, with concentrations in genetics and bioethics. She received a master's degree in general psychology from New York University and a doctorate in neuropsychology from City University of New York. Dr. Wolf was a postdoctoral fellow in clinical neuropsychology at the Cornell University Medical College. Prior to coming to Boston, she held faculty appointments in psychiatry at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the Columbia University School of Medicine. Dr. Wolf has taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels and has published and presented extensively on attention and cognitive functioning in children and young adults. She has co-edited the texts Adult Attention Deficit Disorder: Brain Mechanisms and Life Outcomes (2001) published by the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences and is senior co-editor of Adult Learning Disorders: Current Controversies (2008), the Psychology Press of Taylor and Francis. She is co-authoring Asperger's Syndrome: A Professional Guide to Higher Education to appear in 2008.

Dr. Wolf holds faculty appointments as assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at the Boston University School of Medicine and as adjunct associate professor of rehabilitation sciences at the Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at Boston University. Her research interests include the neuropsychology of attention disorders and service delivery for students with Asperger's Syndrome and other neuropsychiatric disabilities.