• Strengthening essential educational abilities

• Providing information on various educational and training programs

• Utilizing time and stress management techniques

• Developing social supports in line with educational pursuits and within a normalized setting

• Obtaining tutoring and mentoring services

• Facilitating referrals and contacts with campus resources and various organizations

• Completing college enrollment processes and obtaining financial aid and/or resolving past educational debts

• Choosing areas of academic concentration

• Understanding accommodation rules and laws under the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990

• Making positive educational choices

O’Connor Associates, LLC provides individualize supported educational services for students with psychiatric, learning-based, or behavioral barriers to achieving academically.

Our service model provides person-centered counseling support and skills building enhance self reliance. Our education plans are customized to meet the student’s specific goals, abilities, and needs. We offer numerous options regarding assistance techniques and intensity to adequately meet the student’s educational needs.

We take a systems approach to educational rehabilitation, actively integrating the student into his or her learning environment while coordinating medical or clinical care providers, families, and school resources (i.e university disability support service departments). Through increased insight as well as developed practical skills, students manage their disability and enhance productivity and quality of life in a campus environment. We help clients’ develop a new, positive identity as an achieving student rather than a disabled patient.