Navigating College Workshops
Do you have a college-bound student with Invisible Differences, such as ADHD, learning disabilities, ASD, and/or mental health disorders? The Navigating College Workshops are a series of 6 interactive workshops, each focused on a different topic, that provides important information to help students who have invisible differences navigate through college and graduate. Due to COVID-19, the next Navigating College Workshop Series will be offered virtually.
The next Navigating College Workshops will kick off on December 8th, on Zoom, and continue throughout 2021. Register here.
Who Should Attend:
This workshop is for intellectually-typical, college-bound students who have invisible differences and their parents/guardians. Invisible Differences are: learning disabilities, mental health disorders and neuro-behavioral challenges, including ADHD, ASD, and executive function disorders. The workshop is limited to 12 families. If the course is full, you may add your name to a waitlist.
The topics of the six sessions are:
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Legal Rights Covers legal rights as a high school student and as a college student, how the rights differ, and personal impact
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Choosing and Applying to College Helps students identify what attributes of a college are important to them as a unique learner and how to determine whether a school has the resources and environment they are seeking
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Disclosure, Documentation, and Disability Services Covers requirements for registering with Disability Services on campus and receiving accommodations
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Accommodations Covers the process for seeking accommodations as well as discussing a variety of different accommodations that might be useful
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Self-Advocacy Teaches students how to advocate for themselves and introduces them to the various “players” on campus to whom they might need to advocate
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College Life Provides a comprehensive overview of all aspects of college life and invites students to think about how their disability will impact college life
Facilitators
Marci Koblenz, M.A., the Navigating College facilitator, as well as the program developer, is an educator who has worked with students who have invisible differences for more than 18 years. As those students grew up and struggled with college, she saw first-hand the unique challenges these students face in college and realized there are no existing resources to help them (and their families) plan for and succeed in college. That realization led to the creation of the Navigating College Workshop series. In addition, as the mother of four adult children who are intellectually-typical and have invisible differences, she brings her insights as a parent to the workshop. Marci is also the Founder and President of Center for Companies That Care, a nonprofit dedicated to dramatically increasing college graduation rates among vulnerable students, including those who have invisible differences.
The sessions will be co-facilitated with Dr. Adina Kleiman, a Licensed Psychologist and Certified School Psychologist with 40 + years of clinical and therapeutic experience.