<p>Sorry I did not stumble on this thread earlier, as it might have been more helpful to wacky. We have used AHEADD for my son. We were very, very happy with them. Not inexpensive, but overall worth the money in my book. After watching our extremely bright, but socially awkward, son drop out of college twice and feel that money go down the drain, this was money well spent. A little background – our son who never had any problems academically in H.S., but was a possible aspie or something else, not sure what, but socially uncomfortable and a bit “different”-- would be doing fine, then for some reason miss a paper deadline, or sleep through a test or somesuch, and then just quit doing anything, unable to talk to or face the class or profs again. Consequently, drop out for the semester. Finally decided to have him transfer and hooked up with AHEADD. I learned about them from an article in the NY Times years earlier and had filed it away. Everyone there was truly caring and extremely professional. As parents we were pretty hands-off. We allowed our son to feel that college and his experiences with AHEADD were his domain and we were not very “in the loop” despite his living at home during this time, so I cannot give much detail. They evaluate the student’s needs and determine an individualized program for each. For our son, it amounted to weekly meetings with a consistent “counselor,” and additional phone calls/texting as needed. In addition, our son participated in various social events/outings (bowling, ice skating, movies, major league baseball games) which he enjoyed. Not all about academics, but life skills too. AHEADD can and will intervene/communicate with profs if necessary and they have a mentor program, matching each student with another student mentor. Our son now has his diploma (YEA!!!). It is hard to know if it would have happened without AHEADD, but watching him function (not!) since he has finished, leads me to believe he could not have done it without them. Right now, they are trying to work with him on transitioning to a career, as we have now realized that just getting the diploma is not enough if it just ends there. To their credit we have since learned that they did work on that too before he graduated, but due to other family emergencies at that time, some things fell through the cracks for us, so they are continuing a bit with him beyond. Overall, they helped him get the diploma, but I am not sure our son (perhaps different for others) really learned to change his behaviour in ways that will help him going forward from here. I think it is a little too hardwired and more real therapy is needed for that.</p>