Pre-college training for the student
with LD or AD/HD
The College Success Guidance Program
is designed to give the maximum chance for a successful college experience to the student with Learning Disabilities or Attention Deficit Disorder.
The Program uses a comprehensive system that assesses student’s strengths, provides assistance in planning and skills acquisition during the summer before college, and maintains follow up support throughout the first college year. By arranging for training to occur prior to embarking for college, rather than after failure, the program offers the greatest opportunity for academic success.
THE PROBLEM
Every year high school graduates prepare to tackle the most exciting venture of their young adult lives; college. Ideally, the new college student embarks on this journey well prepared and excels at learning the many academic, social, and life lessons this experience offers.
Unfortunately, many are not prepared for college life and return defeated after the first few semesters.
For them, completing college requires the added tasks of undoing the effects of that failure and healing yet another assault on their academic self-concept. Most learn only after significant struggle that it would have been easier and less expensive to do this right the first time; that being prepared is far easier than reworking their mistakes.
Why does this happen?
CAUSES
Transition to college is a major shift from the relatively warm and supportive structures of home and high school. College students must create their own structures to negotiate the rigors of campus life. They must learn to balance the need to work with the impulsive want for fun and, more fundamentally, they must learn to live and function successfully on their own.
Making this transition is difficult for even the best student. However, for students with a Learning Disability or Attention Deficit Disorder, it can become overwhelming and the resulting stress begins the student on an ultimate slide toward failure.
NEED
Yet these same students thrive academically when they enter the college setting armed, before they leave home, with specific tools and skills incorporated into a plan tailored to their individual strengths and challenges.
They also must have ongoing support as they implement this plan and become skilled with these tools. To be effective, this support needs to be provided by a trained "college guide" who can engage them in a common language of success and who will support and encourage them while they are actually within the college setting.
In short, they need an effective and comprehensive package that will prepare and see them successfully through the first challenging year of college.
SOLUTION
The College Success Guidance Program addresses these needs through a system designed specifically to give these students the tools, skills and support they need to successfully transition into and advance through college.
