{"id":1290,"date":"2012-03-13T08:37:50","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T14:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/blog\/?p=601"},"modified":"2024-03-06T09:52:14","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T15:52:14","slug":"college-prep-for-emotionally-vulnerable-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/college-prep-for-emotionally-vulnerable-students\/","title":{"rendered":"College Prep for Emotionally Vulnerable Students"},"content":{"rendered":"
College represents a major life transition for young adults and coincides with a period of profound cognitive and developmental changes. Because of this compounding of internal and external disruption, many young people who enter college encounter difficulties that they are ill-equipped to deal with and permanently withdraw prior to graduation.
\nCurrently, statistics for college failure hover at close to 50% nationally. Adjustment difficulties are further compounded when a college entrant has a history of emotional struggles such as depression, anxiety, personality disorders, or substance abuse.
\nAs a preliminary step in preparing an emotionally vulnerable student for college, psychological and academic testing is a good idea. Testing not only alerts the student and other stakeholders to possible vulnerabilities, but also helps the student qualify for college accommodations such as untimed testing, special classroom seating, note-taking services, and etcetera. Always check with the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) counselor at a college before enrolling a student to assess the robustness of the school’s support and accommodations.
\nCollege choice is another important question to consider as early as possible in the young person’s journey toward adulthood. The following considerations should play into college choices for those who may be emotionally or behaviorally at risk:<\/p>\n
An educational consultant with a special-needs background can help expedite this and other research, and can make specific college recommendations based on an individual student’s profile. It’s critical to put the young person in the driver’s seat when selecting a school in order to maximize their engagement in the process. Parents and professionals should view themselves as advisers and facilitators.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Currently, statistics for college failure hover at close to 50% nationally. Adjustment difficulties are further compounded when a college entrant has a history of emotional struggles such as depression, anxiety, personality disorders, or substance abuse. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8284,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1290\/revisions\/8284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunrisertc.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}