Free Annual College Transition Summit

If you missed this year’s summit, don’t wait for next year to get the crucial information you need to prepare students for successful college transition. Here are ways to learn about the topics it covered!

• College Admission: Learn what college admission deans, including Jeremiah Quinlan of Yale University, Keyana Scales (fomerly) of Xavier University, Gregory Moyer of Dickinson College, Sacha Thieme University of Indiana, and Mike Langford of Western Carolina University said about disability disclosure in the admissions process, how they think about students’ grades and ACT/SAT scores, classes they’ve taken, schools specializing in serving students with learning disabilities and ADHD, and more. Read Step 6 of Elizabeth book, Seven Steps to College Success: A Pathway for Students with Disabilities.
• Assistive Technology for College: Watch a free recorded webinar on assistive technology (AT) from Korey Singleton, Deputy ADA Coordinator for Accessibility and ATI Manager at George Mason University on Elizabeth’s Youtube channel (where you’ll also find a lot of other helpful information and see what AT specialists said about the importance of getting students ready to use AT in Elizabeth’s free blog.
• Preparing Students for Successful College Transition: Elizabeth is sought-after speaker on this topic. You can watch her two on-demand webinars now – both her overview of important topics (including laws in place, students’ responsibilities and rights, needed documentation, accommodations commonly approved, myths about disability and college admission, and explaining different levels of support) and her focused webinar detailing numerous accommodations not commonly approved (critical information for preparing students to adapt to the college environment. You can also hire Elizabeth to present for your school, district or group on a variety of related topics.

• Get Information From Disability Services Directors: For her book, Elizabeth interviewed directors about the accommodations they commonly approve or don’t and why, about what their processes in reviewing requests, what skills students need and which they often lack, and how parents and professionals can prepare students for a smooth transition. You can read some bonus book content or get a thorough education by reading Elizabeth’s book.

• Executive Functioning at College: In two Q&As, educational therapists Jenny Drennan (founder of We Thrive Learning), Ashley Harding (start of Northstar Academics), Rachel Kapp (founder of Kapp Educational Therapy) and Stephanie Pitts (founder of My Ed Therapist) talked to watch Elizabeth about how to develop these skills. You can watch them on Elizabeth’s free Youtube channel (and explore more videos there, too).  You can also learn more about executive functioning skills and why they’re critical to college success in Step 3 of Elizabeth’s book. https://bit.ly/ECHbook