Stony Brook University (NY) offered its third annual Student Accessibility Support Center (SASC) Summer Transition Program to help students with disabilities adjust to college life. The weeklong residential initiative held this summer is free to participants, filled with daily workshops and evening activities on topics such as life skills, academic success, campus resources and social integration.
The Summer Transition Program was developed in response to national trends showing that students with disabilities often experience lower rates of college adjustment and graduation, reported Stony Brook University News.
“We design sessions around what our students report struggling with the most,” Nicholas Lajoie, CARE manager at SASC, told the News. “Accessing services for the first time can be intimidating. So we bring students to campus offices during the program, and it removes that initial barrier. We want students to feel they have that one person in a large school that they can go to when challenges arise.”
Learn more about the SASC Summer Transition Program here.
