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I am looking for recommendations for the best colleges in the Northeast for students who have LD's including ADD.

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All schools have disability offices that provide support: extra time, distraction free testing, 4-8 hour course at the beginning of the semester re: organizational skills, etc. If these services meet your student's needs, once you have your list of schools, you can make specific inquiries about parents'/studentrs' experience with the schools on your list.

If your student needs the additional support, you may wish to consider the more structured, extra-fee programs: coaches, weekly meetings with learning specialists, etc. Some of these programs have a separte or additional application and in some cases applicants submit a psycho-social in lieu of SATs or other standardized admissions tests. The top schools, however, do not offer this level of specialized programming.

Curry and Mitchell are two such programs in the northeast; Fairleigh Dickinson in NJ has a free program for LD students (but not ADD students). Farther dow on this page, there are thread with info on Curry, New England, and Hillyer Univiersity of Hartford; there's also a thread on Lynn (but that's in FL). You can use the search function at the top of the page to locate earlier threads on this topic.