 Dublin City University is aiming to become Ireland's first autism-friendly campus in Europe. DCU is collaborating with Autism Support Group as I am to try and achieve this. Anne O'Connor of DCU's Disability Services described what services are currently available to those who have autism in college. So we've arranged of supports that are available for students with aspergers who are on the autism spectrum. So firstly there is the dare route where students can into college on reduced points. So if they've a diagnosed of aspergers or mental health or dyslexia or range of other difficulties they can get into college on reduced CO points. Secondly we offer a one-day orientation just for the students who are coming in with dyslexia or aspergers or mental health or any of those routes. And we organise it the week before the main orientation and it's to ensure that they get to see the campus before it gets really really busy because as you know that week of that first orientation is just crazy. Adam Harris, author for As I Am is currently trying to set up an autism-friendly society in DCU. He spoke about his experiences living with the condition. I'm the founder of an organisation called As I Am and we're an organisation working to change attitudes towards people with autism in Ireland and to empower the autism community. And we've been working on DCU campus for the last 18 months or so on the All Campus Initiative which is about making the campus one of Europe's first autism-friendly campuses. Yeah so I have asperger's syndrome myself. I was diagnosed when I was five years out. I spent the first three years on my education, a special school for people with autism. When I was eight years old I moved to mainstream school with the support of an SNA and then I went to secondary school independently. So I suppose I was lucky to get the right support at the right time and I had a very independent life. We went down to the group's first meeting and spoke to Dr Mary Rose Sweeney of DCU about her experiences working with people in the autism community. People actually keep asking me this question recently about why the level of awareness and conversation has increased hugely. And I think really it's down to the advocacy groups and the parent groups who have been really strong in advocating for people with autism. It was so successful. It was probably one of the best things I've ever done because the amount of feedback I got from families and from the people who attended afterwards was phenomenal. People were saying it was the first time they'd ever had a friend somebody to go to coffee with. So when I heard that and when Brian asked me to lead this project I just couldn't, could not do it. While every society in DCU needs at least 20 signatures to become a society, this society is hoping that they will have a concession because the people involved are quite vulnerable. This is Paul Dwyer for DCU TV News.