Resource Guide
Other Services
Barbara Manierre
College Admissions
Advising
Email:
barbara@barbaramanierre.com
Phone: (510) 655-9065
I
provide a full range of one-on-one college counseling services to meet
the needs of individual students. Services include identifying
appropriate colleges, advising about course selection and testing, and
providing assistance with essays and organization.
Blanche Virk, MA
College Admissions Counseling
Web: www.BlancheVirk.com
Email: BlancheVirk@gmail.com
Phone: (415) 454-8946
Address: P.O. Box 485, Ross, CA 94957
Counseling for college including academic and extracurricular planning, personality and interest-skill assessment, identifying good-fit colleges, and how to be a successful applicant. Guidance in the following: finding an appropriate athletic fit, athletic marketing and recruiting, test preparation, campus visits, distinguishing oneself through the essay, and application for scholarships and financial aid. Presentations and workshops.
Moving Forward Towards
Independence
transitional and
community living program for young adults with learning disabilities
Web:
www.moving-forward.org
Email:
donnaf@moving-forward.org
Phone: (707) 259-1125
Address: 1020 Clinton Street, Suite 210, Napa, CA 94559
Moving
Forward Towards Independence is a nonprofit, residential program in
beautiful Napa, CA committed to guiding our residents to achieve their
highest potential. By providing an environment that maintains
a
balance of challenges and support, Moving Forward fosters growth in
social, vocational and interpersonal skills. Working in
partnership with residents and their families, we offer a caring and
responsive community where young adults with complex learning or mild
developmental disabilities can enjoy productive, fulfilling and healthy
lives.
Rebecca Field Consulting
and BOLD (Bright Options for the Learning Disabled)
College Admission
Advising for LD Students & College Success & Retention
Coaching
Web:
www.rebeccafieldconsulting.com/bold
Phone: (510) 816-7755
Rebecca
Field Consulting and BOLD (Bright Options for the Learning Disabled)
helps LD students get into college and stay there. Offering
college admission advising as well as college success and retention
coaching, Rebecca Field Consulting and BOLD helps students get into
college and stay there once they've been accepted. Services
are
offered throughout the Bay Area and nationwide via video skype.
University of California
Berkeley Social Skills Camp
Summer camp
Web:
www.recsports.berkeley.edu/socialskills
Email:
scrainfo@berkeley.edu
Phone: (510) 643-2267
Address: Berkeley, CA
This
a one-of-a-kind social skills camp and leadership/work-skills program
for children and teens in 4th – 12th grade with Nonverbal Learning
Disabilities, High Functioning Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, and similar
social skills deficits. Our program is unique because youth are fully
integrated with typically developing peers. Goals are
individualized and social skills are taught in the environment and
context where they are used. Teens gain leadership and work
place
skills while working at camp alongside their peers.
Virginia Reiss AssociatesEducational ConsultingWeb:
www.virginiareiss.comEmail:
vreissassociates@sbcglobal.netPhone: (415) 461-4788
Address: 980 Magnolia Avenue, Suite 8, Larkspur, CA 94939
We work with students from ages 3 to 25. The services we provide are: advocacy, school selection, crisis intervention, educational planning, psycho-educational evaluations, and over-18 transitional programs. For over 25 years we have specialized in working with families to resolve educational questions. Once we have gathered all pertinent information we can begin to generate possible interventions. Any educational/therapeutic intervention must be made only after thoughtful planning, weighing negative and positive implications of the change.
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