Peer mentors and behavioral modeling can be used in learning appropriate grooming skills. These include maintaining a neat hairstyle, choosing appropriate attire for every occasion, and keeping one's body clean.

Grooming as a Foundational Consideration

Deficits in areas such as planning, organizing, foresight, and other aspects of executive functioning affect students' abilities to grasp a problem and come up with solutions. College counselors can help students set goals and identify problems as well as potential solutions and outcomes.

Executive Functioning as a Foundational Consideration

College counselors can utilize the decision-making template (CASVE template) to assist students in making major decisions about the future. The template provides a rigid way of analyzing abstract concepts such as choosing the most viable career path, which many students with Level 1 ASD often struggle with.

Problem-Solving and Decision-Making Skills as a Foundational Consideration

Individuals with Level 1 ASD often struggle with work-related organization systems and the tracking of events and deadlines. To help with this, college counselors can recommend the use of simple organizers such as colored folders, planners, and planning software in managing everyday life.

Organizers as a Foundational Consideration

College counselors can help students identify personal strengths and weaknesses during sessions, and use these to assist them in developing a sense of appropriate career direction.

Recognizing Strengths and Weaknesses as a Foundational Consideration

- Grooming
- Executive functioning
- Problem-solving and decision-making skills
- Organizers
- Recognizing strengths and weaknesses

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The mildest form, this classification is often referred to as high-functioning. These individuals require the least amount of support, and usually can speak fluently and function reasonably well. Before the DSM-5, this is where Asperger’s Syndrome fell. 

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Dipeolu, A. O., Storlie, C., &amp; Johnson, C. (2015). College students with high-functioning autism spectrum disorder: Best practices for successful transition to the world of work. Journal of College Counseling, 18(2), 175–190. https://doi.org/10.1002/jocc.12013 

College Students with High-Functioning Autism Spectrum Disorder: Best Practices for Successful Transition to the World of Work

- College counselors
- Group counseling
- Videos
- Development of soft skills

Successful Post-College Transition in Students with Level 1 ASD

- Represents the most successful transition to adulthood out of all spectrum disorders
- Most commonly diagnosed in boys
- Age, severity level, and intelligence are the most important variables in predicting the outcomes of students with Level 1 ASD
- The less symptomatic or severe the case, the better the outcomes later in life

Characteristics of Level 1 ASD

- Self-concept
- Self-awareness
- Social perception
- Grooming
- Soft skills
- Negotiation
- Social interaction

Social Deficit Areas in Individuals with Level 1 ASD

- Strength-based careers
- Career assessments
- Job search
- Work environment
- Job interview
- Work accommodations
- Self-knowledge and self-advocacy

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