Parenting for College Success
Encourage College-Bound Students To Register for Disability Accommodations
“The only people who need to know they have accommodations are the people who’ll be involved in them, like professors. But professors have no right to know what students’ disability is, and it’s unlikely that the disability services office will tell them.”
The Importance of Transparency in College Preparation for Students with Disabilities
“But the laws in place at the college level provide protections only for those with disabilities. If students don’t think they have a disability, they likely won’t register for the accommodations that are available to them. (This was seen in a large-scale study.)
Accommodations Alone Aren’t the Key To College Success For Students with Disabilities
“…if students don’t know understand what’s been discussed in class and covered in the readings, it doesn’t matter how much time they get to take the test. A lot should happen before students take a test.”
How Parents Can Prepare Their Student with a Disability for College Success
“Start practicing being the ‘cheerleader’ instead of the main person who’s responsible.”
Do College Disability Services Offices Communicate with Parents?
“But FERPA doesn’t require us to provide information outside of that record. So if we don’t have access to their grades, we won’t seek it out.”
What Can Happen When a Student with ADHD Isn’t Ready for College
“Everything from waking up, to going to class, to doing my homework was my choice, and I wasn’t really ready for that.”
Learning Disabilities and ADHD and College Readiness: Advice from Someone Who Started Too Soon
“Too often, we apply an arbitrary timeline when it comes to what kids ‘should’ be doing…Students mature at different times…”
Preparing Students with Mental Health Disabilities for Successful College Transition
“Do some behaviors occur in one setting but not others? Strategies should address this, and everyone involved with these students has to play parallel and collaborative roles and adhere to the plan, to make sure that students develop these skills and recognize the need to utilize strategies in all environments.”
College Autism Experts’ Advice for Families on College Preparation
“Academics are one quarter of students’ experience at college. Students need to be able to do the other three quarters to feel comfortable on campus.”