Where We Start
college selection
and transition
The college process is hard for any family. When your student has ADHD or a learning disability, it comes with a whole extra layer, finding schools that actually support them, making sure accommodations carry forward, and figuring out how to step back without stepping out entirely.
This is where we come in.
Building the right school list: Not just colleges your student can get into. Colleges where they can actually thrive. We look at academic fit alongside disability services, accommodation culture, and the kind of support structure your student will actually use.
Understanding your student's profile: We review existing documentation and academic history together to get clear on strengths, needs, and which accommodations are worth fighting for in college. No starting from scratch, no guesswork
Book a call
Services are available individually or as part of a structured package, depending on where your family is in the process. We start with two complimentary 30-minute consultations , one with your student, one with you, so we understand the full picture before recommending anything.
How it Works
What We Work on Along the Way
Self-advocacy coaching: Your student learns to explain their own needs clearly and navigate disability services offices without you in the room. That skill matters more in college than any single accommodation.
Practice conversations: Real rehearsal for real meetings. Students practice the conversations they'll have with administrators and disability staff so nothing catches them off guard when it counts.
Executive functioning and independence: The day-to-day skills that don't get taught anywhere but matter as much as any course load; managing time, managing information, managing themselves in a new environment.
First-year support
Optional ongoing coaching through the first year of college. Because the transition doesn't end on move-in day.
Kate Branson Gmuer is a multi-state certified special educator, higher education faculty member, and disability services leader with decades of expertise spanning K–12 schools, higher education, special education law, literacy, and disability services. Her work sits at the intersection of practice, policy, and advocacy and she has spent her career identifying exactly where systems fail students before failure becomes the evidence.
Kate specializes in specific learning disabilities, dyslexia, ADHD, executive functioning, disability civil rights, and the transition to college. She brings that depth of knowledge to every family we work with.
I brought Kate in because this is her world. She knows what colleges are actually required to provide, what families are often told that isn't true, and how to build a plan that holds.
