Bumps Abound When Students Become Their Own Advocates: Special Needs Can Make Transition to College Tricky (Washington Post)
October 28, 2008
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/24/AR2008102403825_pf.html
After a decade of worrying about her son's attention-deficit disorder, meeting with teachers, calling around to get lost homework assignments and getting advice on SAT test accommodations, Lori Spinelli-Samara is facing this simple truth: Next year, in college, Nick is on his own...
...A generation of students accustomed to receiving help for special learning needs is entering college. The percentage of students identified with learning disabilities who graduate from high school and go on to four-year colleges jumped from one in 100 in 1987 to about one in nine last year. And those who go on to any kind of post-secondary education went from a third to almost three-quarters by 2003. But some are finding that the transition isn't easy...
