Transitioning to College: Post-Secondary Challenges and Legal Issues for Students with ADHD and/or Learning Disabilities

Please join us in the Brubeck Room for a SPED*NET presentation on Transitioning to College.  Despite their intelligence and enormous potential, students diagnosed with ADHD and LD face continual difficulty addressing transitions. None prove more difficult than the transition from high school to college. What makes this transition difficult is a variety of social and legal changes that many students and parents are not equipped to address. This puts them at high risk to fail, despite their high potential. If addressed proactively, however, the challenges of this transition can be reduced dramatically so these students can have the opportunity to maximize their potential, and not just survive in the post-secondary environment but to thrive there.

Robert Tudisco will address many of the social and legal changes that occur with the transition to college and discuss practical strategies for students to reach their full potential. His presentation will include such topics as: IEPs and making the most of transition planning; converting 504 plans to reasonable accommodation requests in college; high stakes testing accommodations; understanding FERPA and proactively addressing the flow of information; developing strategies to provide structure, support and accountability while away at school; and diversion of medication and what parents and students need to know.

Robert M. Tudisco, ESQ., is a nationally recognized author, motivational speaker, and non-profit management consultant and is also an adult diagnosed with ADHD.  As Senior Counsel to Barger & Gaines, he specializes in matters involving school disciplinary hearings and criminal defense, in addition to general special education advocacy. Attorney Tudisco is a current member of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Disability Rights. From 2010 through 2013, he was the Executive Director of the Edge Foundation, a non-profit organization that provides specialized coaching for students with ADHD and executive functioning impairment. He is a past member of the National Board of Directors of Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder (CHADD), serving as a member of its Public Policy Committee from 2003 through 2015, and as Committee Chair from 2005 through 2008.

Presented by SPED*NET in partnership with Wilton Library and Wilton Public Schools.

Registration suggested.