• New Podcast from the National Center for Learning Disabilities! Listen as Vincent Varrassi of Fairleigh Dickinson University discusses the basics every high school student and family should know about how to plan for a successful transition from high school to college for students with learning disabilities. Get it here.
  
  
• Future Quest 2007 was held December 1, 2007 at George Mason University. Recommended resources and many of the presentation materials are available here.
  
  
• Learn Your Rights and Responsibilities: The U.S. Department of Education has updated its informative guide, Students with Disabilities Preparing for Postsecondary Education: Know Your Rights and Responsibilities. Get the updated guide here.
  
  
• Student Summary of Performance: A new provision in IDEA 2004 requires schools to provide students with a “summary of performance” upon school completion. Learn about this new provision and how to use it to assist with transition to higher education. Get details here.
  
  
• Understanding Virginia Diploma Options: This guide helps parents and students understand the various high school diplomas now offered in Virginia. Download the FREE 9-page guide. (PDF)
  
  
• List of Colleges that Deemphasize the SAT and ACT in Admissions: Browse more than 700 accredited, bachelor degree-granting institutions which do not use the SAT I or ACT to make admissions decisions about substantial numbers of freshman applicants. Find it here.
  
  
• Guide to College for Students with Disabilities: This guide from Virginia’s Department of Education provides loads of information on preparing for college. Get it here.

• Help us spread the word about this new Web site! Download the VCQ Flyer (PDF) to post and distribute.

• How do your skills measure up? Use this checklist of skills and behaviors to see how prepared you are to take on the challenges of college life.

• Tell us what you think! We'd like your feeback on this Web site. Fill out our quick survey.
  

• Webinar Archive Now Available: View the archive of our recent Webinar, SELF-ADVOCACY: Making It Happen in College and Beyond, presented by Dr. Henry Reiff on September 17, 2008. Get the Archive and Handout here.
  
  
• Save the Date: College 4 U - free event for students with disabilities, parents, guardians, and professionals - happens December 6, 2008 at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. Download the College 4 U flyer here. Get the registration form here - please register by November 21, 2008!
  

"I led a life filled with the answers but had no way to get them out. Often my thoughts and ideas felt trapped. Sometimes I was so full of thoughts that needed to get out, I would blurt them out at the most inappropriate times and places. But I had a dream to go on to college and to go into a helping profession. So I had to figure it out on my own."

- Joy Cobb tells her story.