Special Education & Learning Disabilities Resources: A Nationwide Directory
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If your older teen / young adult child is not quite ready for independent living, a Young Adult Transition Program or Gap Year program may be just what you need. Find a host of programs, schools, and educational consultants to help you choose the right Young Adult Transition Program for your almost adult child!
Life Compass Partners, Educational Consultants -- We help you find the right residential and non-residential programs for children and teens with all sort of LD ,behavioral, emotional and medical situations
Emerge College Success Program, integrates life coaching and student support services into each student's transition to college.
The Glenholme E3 Transition Program -- focuses on helping young adults with learning
disabilities and Asperger's develop skills essential to succeed in college, work environments and social settings
Horizon Family Solutions
-- school and transition program placement and counseling for at risk teens and their families
Life Development Institute
-- innovative experiential learning and a practical, supportive transition process to adult living
New Directions, young adult college transition program for young adults with LD and Asperger's
OPTIONS at Brehm, is a comprehensive transitional program for young adults with learning disabilities
in Illinois
Options for College Success, is a supervised college program, located in Evanston, Illinois, for young adults between 18 - 30 with learning disabilities
REACH at the University of Iowa
, a living-learning campus experience to help young adults with multiple learning and cognitive disabilities become independent, engaged members of their community.
TechieforLife
-- young adult transition program offering vocational training (with emphasis on computer skills), college courses, life skills, social skills training
State and Regional Listings
Statewide, Regional and Local Services
La Jolla --Educational Options, LLC, offers school placement nationwide for at risk teens and for young adults with special needs
Napa--Moving Forward, residential and life skills program for
young adults with with developmental, learning, and autism spectrum disabilities.
South Pasadena--services that help young adults transition from dependence to independence
Sierra Madre--TOTAL (Treatment of The Autistic Leaner) Programs, provide quality education and life skills training to individuals with Autism or other exceptional needs and their families
Connecticut
Washington -- The Glenholme E3 Transitions Program focuses on helping young adults with learning disabilities and Asperger' develop skills essential to succeed in college, work environments and social settings
Life Compass Partners, Educational Consultants -- We help you find the right residential and non-residential programs for children and teens with all sort of LD ,behavioral, emotional and medical situations
Boca Raton
--Leslie Rouder, LCSW, can assist university students in navigating their way through the system and finding success
Deerfield Beach
--New Directions,young adult college transiton program for young adults with LD and Asperger's
Jacksonville,-- A New Life for Woman, intensive outpatient program for women trying to heal from addiction and trauma
IdahoBonners Ferry and Coeur D'Alene
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Echo Springs Transition Study Center , residential mentoring and transition / study program for young adults
Boise, Emerge College Success Program integrates life coaching and student support services into each student's transition to college.
Illinois
Carbondale -- OPTIONS at Brehm, a comprehensive transitional program for young adults with learning disabilities
Evanston -- Options for College Success is a supervised college program for young adults 18-30 with learning disabilities
Wilmette
--Learning Disabilities Services , assesssment and help for teens with LD and ADD/ ADHD, plus educational, career, and college counseling
Indiana
Iowa
Iowa City, REACH program at the University of Iowa help young adults with multiple learning and cognitive disabilities become independent, engaged members of their community.
Lawrence
--Life Enrichment Center, LLC , Help For Teens With ADD and/or Disordered Eating
Chevy Chase -- Life Compass Partners, Educational Consultants -- We help you find the right residential and non-residential programs for children and teens with all sort of LD ,behavioral, emotional and medical situations
Life Compass Partners, in Chevy Chase, Educational Consultants -- We help you find the right residential and non-residential programs for children and teens with all sort of LD ,behavioral, emotional and medical situations
Hunt Valley,Towson --
Clarity Assessments provides career coaching to young adults and adults
Silver Spring, --Chesapeake ADHD Center of Maryland, coaching and counseling for at risk teens and young adults
Statewide--Southeast Advocates -- special education advocacy family and school support and coaching serving
Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut
Amenia--The Maplebrook School, offers students with LD a collegiate experience including credentials programs and courses for college credit
Manhattan --Evan Kirstein, of Progressive Growth Coaching, is an ADHD Coaching for Parents and Teens in NYC and virtually anywhere
New York City--New Frontiers,
support for Students transitioning to college in New York City and Westchester
Statewide or Regional Services
Bend
-- Horizon Family Solutions, school placement and counseling for at risk teens, young adults, and their families
Glenmoore-- The Camphill School,
offers a pre-vocational transition program for young adults with intellectual disabilities who are between 18 and 21
St. George
--TechieForLife, YA transition program offers residential school with vocational training (with emphasis on computer skills), college courses, life skills, social skills training
Washington
--At The Crossroads, a Young Adult Transitional program designed to help students (18 and older) gain a healthy and independent life away from their home environment
Life Compass Partners, Educational Consultants -- We help you find the right residential and non-residential programs for children and teens with all sort of LD ,behavioral, emotional and medical situations
Union Grove---Shepherds College, Post secondary
School for Young Adults with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities
Powell
--Beartooth Mountain Ascent, Christian recovery program helps at-risk young men, ages 18-28 overcome addictions and self destructive habits through acquiring life skills, vocational skills, faith, and good habits on a working cattle ranch.
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