From the Washington Post: a feature on College Living Experience, a structured program that helps students with learning disabilities make the transition to college.

The demand for such transitional programs has grown as students with disabilities, who gained access in large numbers to regular classes in the 1980s, expect to follow their peers to college, said Meg Grigal, who leads a research team that studies higher-education programs for students with learning disabilities.

“It’s very clear that students who have the opportunities to do this in a program that does it well come out with better employment opportunities and a better ability to advocate for their own needs,” Grigal said. “Anecdotally, we know that providing support for these transition projects really works. We just need to document it.”

See earlier stories here and here.

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