Saturday, May 16, 2009

Q&A: Prepping Kids With Disabilities For College

Roger Diehl has been preparing for life as a college freshman since preschool. The University of Wisconsin-Madison student has Asperger's and ADHD. He's also suffered from depression.
Diehl has had help from his parents, grandparents and school staff to help him make this transition work. Here, Roger and his mother, who runs Tennessee's National Alliance On Mental Illness (NAMI), answer listeners' questions about what their family did to help Roger, and offer advice on how to help kids with mental illness or learning disabilities get ready for college.

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