ATLANTA — A local art school is getting creative in ways they attract students living with autism.

When 9-year-old Sebastian’s mom Tanisha Boldin realized how talented her son was, she sent some of his free-hand drawings to Savannah College of Art and Design or SCAD Atlanta.

“I was shocked, I said wow! that’s a character,” Tanisha Boldin said,

Sebastian was invited to sit in on an art class. That’s when his mom learned how many students on the spectrum are thriving at SCAD.

Each person enrolled at SCAD has an accommodation specialist.

“When parents drop off their students, they want to know that this is an environment where their student is going to be cared for and that they get the support that they need,” Dr. Latoya Moss SCAD’s director of counseling and student support services said.

Moss says at SCAD, support is customized to fit each student’s individual needs.

“They may need preferential seating, they may need noise-cancelling headphones...or just to use fidget spinners during class,” Moss said.

During summer at SCAD Atlanta, two important programs to help students get acclimated a series of workshops called “be ready to Buzz”...and a program called Jumpstart.

There’s also a student-led group called Social Spectrum that creates a community with the community for students on the spectrum.

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