Meet Trevor

 Trevor is a bright 18-year-old who plays games

and watches videos on his laptop.

He lives at home with his parents and attends

a special school because of is Autism Spectrum
Disorder.

He has 18 years old.
He has Autism Spectrum Disorder.
He plays games, and watches videos.
He lives with his parents.
He attends a special school.

Challenges

He has problems with visual information

and recognizing things on the page.
His reading skills are not helped by his trouble
concentrating on the page or screen long enough.

He can be easily confused by colloquialisms

and metaphors. He can also be overwhelmed
by sites that offer too many choices.

Visual Information.
Recognizing things on the page.
Reading skills.
Concentration.
Colloquialisms and metaphors.
Overwhelmed by sites with many choices.

A boy grabing a book, with a question mark near the right side of is head

Enjoyments

He likes using the school’s forum to talk

to his friends. It’s easier to just read what they
want to say than to listen and try to figure out
their facial expressions.

He really likes games with repetitive actions.

Using the school’s forum to talk with his friends.
Games with repetitive actions.

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School Support

The teachers and staff of his school, help him

with his social and communication challenges.

 His teachers showed him how to make the text

bigger on the page, and told him how to use
a printable view to hide all the ads with moving
images that distract him, because he reads every
word on the page very carefully and literally.

Teachers and staff help him with:

Social challenges
Communication challenges

Teachers explained to him how to:

Make the text bigger
How to use a printable view to hide ads

Homework

He shares a laptop with the family, but has first

dibs on it because his parents want him to get his
schoolwork done. He uses it for homework.

He shares a laptop with his family.
He has first dibs on it.
His parents want him to do his shoolwork.
He does his homework on the computer.

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