Abstract
The paper focuses on the counselling support of university students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) while taking into account gender specifics. First, it reflects the development of the number of students with ASD registered within the Academic Counselling Centre of the Faculty of Education, Charles University and shows how this group has changed in recent years.
It then depicts what kind of support students most often need, what their specifics are in counselling work based on the analysis of case studies. Furthermore, we concentrate on the gender specifics of female students with ASD who show generally smaller deficits in social skills.
This is a factor that must be taken into account in educational and counselling practice, and we demonstrate this in the case studies of female students with ASD. The paper also presents the latest theoretical framework in the given area.