Preparing students with disabilities for college

D will be a college freshman this fall. We spent a ton of time on these issues the last several years. We visited the Disability Office at every school she visited. We initially struggled with whether to disclose on applications, She has significant language/reading/dyslexia issues and her IEP granted a foreign language waiver, so she did disclose to explain that. She applied to 10 colleges, all of which offered a substitution/cultural class to her and waived their foreign language requirement.

We made sure we had current (within 3 years) testing. She had no problem qualifying for college services. I was pleased with the various college disability offices and their response. We are extremely happy with Disabilities at her chosen college. They have been in contact throughout the summer and will have her books on audio files, etc. before school starts.