College planning for students with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, and other learning differences requires different considerations than traditional college search processes.

At age 18, IDEA protections transition to ADA accommodations. Students become their primary advocates. Disability services structures and responsiveness vary significantly across institutions.

To help families navigate this transition, we've analyzed insights from 500+ college students with learning differences. This webinar shares what we've learned about the factors that contribute to college success. We will provide practical guidance informed by real student experiences.

In this 60-minute educational session, we'll discuss:

• How the legal and support landscape changes in college
• The 5 Pillars framework for evaluating college fit
• How disability support structures vary across different institutions
• What 500+ students report about their college experiences
• Strategies for developing self-advocacy skills during the transition
• How to use student perspectives when building your college list

This webinar is designed for:
Parents of high school students (grades 9-12) with ADHD, autism, dyslexia, or other learning differences who are beginning or actively engaged in college planning.

What you'll gain from this session:

• A framework for evaluating college fit across 5 key dimensions
• Questions to ask during campus visits
• Understanding of how to interpret student experiences when researching colleges
• Clarity on how disability support varies across institutions

Speakers

Amy Kopelman
Amy Kopelman is the founder of Pathlitics and the parent of a teenager who learn differently.

When Amy began the college search process a few years ago, she got her first glimpse of how complex the process would be for her daughter. The available resources didn’t begin to explain the differences between colleges and their support programs, and stigma often prevents these conversations from occurring. Finding the right college for a student with learning differences meant hundreds of hours combing through websites, cold-calling disability offices, and hoping to track down college students with learning differences willing to share their honest experiences. She decided other parents shouldn't have to do that.

So she did it- once, for all of them.

After thousands of hours interviewing parents, students, and counselors, Amy built what didn't exist: a platform anchored by verified reviews from over 500 college students who learn differently, covering everything families actually need to know- campus culture, sense of belonging, relationships with professors, academics, and the reality of disability services and accommodations.

Pathlitics is the resource Amy wished she'd had. Today it's the resource hundreds of families don't have to live without.

Jessica Falkenthal

Jessica Falkenthal is a mentor to several college students who learn differently and the Head of Marketing at Pathlitics, the only platform where families can read verified reviews of college disability support services written by students who've used them.

She knows this space from multiple angles. Jessica worked in admissions at the Kelley School of Business and has seen the college search process from the inside. She also has ADHD and spent her own college years avoiding the disability accommodations she was entitled to — held back by internalized stigma that told her needing support meant she couldn't cut it. She came out the other side, but not without wishing she'd had honest guidance and a community of near-peers to show her that accommodations aren't a workaround. They're the point.

That experience shapes both her mentorship and her work at Pathlitics, where she's focused on making sure students and families have the real information they need before they choose a college — not after.