Assisting Law Students with Disabilities in the 21st Century - Law Students with Invisible Disabilities: How Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders, Psychiatric Disabilities, and Learning Disabilities Navigate Legal Education

This panel discusses some of the more challenging populations of law students with disabilities. Accommodations will be discussed based on the new regulations and panelists will review some cases. Emphasis will be given to discussing students on the autism spectrum and students with psychiatric disabilities. Panel: Jane Thierfeld Brown, Director of Student Services, University of Connecticut School of Law (moderator); Salome Heyward, Principal, Salome Heyward & Associates; and Christy Willis, Director, Office of Disability Support Services, The George Washington University