By Sue Shellenbarger in the Wall Street Journal:

Students with learning disabilities are applying to colleges at five times the rate of the 1980s; colleges have only recently begun to provide services for qualified students with disabilities and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Attitudes and programs vary widely between schools.

While federal law has led to standardized jargon and services in K-12 education, the law for colleges simply requires them to make “reasonable accommodations” for students with disabilities.

Colleges lack universal labels to describe their supports, and guidebooks and educational consultants use no less than a half-dozen terms … to describe various service levels.

Shellenbarger offers tips and resources to help parents cut through the thicket, and says campus visits are crucial in selecting a school.

See also : Peterson’s: Colleges for Students with Learning Disabilities.

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