Post-Secondary Education

  • A Guide to Visual Disabilities: How Colleges Help Visually Impaired Students Succeed includes numerous resources for the college experience, as well as tips from experts and a listing of scholarships/grants.
  • Affordable Colleges provides information on college scholarships and financial aid for students with disabilities.
  • Best Colleges offers legal rights, tips for campus life, and specific resources suggestions by disability.
  • College Internship Program is designed to help teens with ASD or who learn differently to make successful transitions from adolescence to adulthood.
  • College Learning and Resource Center provides tips for transition from high school to college; specific information by disability on how to transition into the workforce; and legal rights on college campuses.
  • College Living Experience provides post-secondary support to students with autism, Asperger’s syndrome, ADHD, and other conditions.
  • College to Career is a program of the School of Continuing Education- offered in select community colleges which works to improve employment outcomes for individuals with intellectual disabilities, working in partnership with RCOC and the Department of Rehabilitation.  For more information, call 714.808.4719
  • Mental Health College Guide  A guide to help navigate life changes that come with heading off to college from NAM and Jed.
  • Set to Go from the JED Foundation offers information with easy-to-use resources, to help students think about, plan for, and step into the future they want.
  • Summer@CIP is a program for students with ASD and/or learning differences who will spend two weeks at highly-rated campuses across the U.S.
  • Think College provides a variety of options for people with intellectual disabilities, guiding them to consider inclusive high education.