Elizabeth C. Hamblet, LD Advisory

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College learning disabilities specialist Author of Seven Steps to College Success: A Pathway for Students with Disabilities Speaker for events and professionals LDadvisory.com. She/her.

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"...the purpose of notetaking is to allow students to fill in the gaps in their own notes, not to replace them or indicate what’s important, or summarize the lecture. These are things students have to figure out on their own."
College search and preparation for students with learning disabilities and ADHD. July 20, 2026, 2 PM EDT, live on Substack. Picture of Elizabeth Hamblet and Sharon Thomas, white middle aged women with long blonde hair.
we won’t go through a student’s report to pull out and review everything that’s been recommended at the end of a testing report, or in a letter from a provider, or in a high school 504 plan or IEP. Several colleagues told me the same is true at their office.
Library's recommended reads list includes Land by Maggie Farrell and Cool Machine by Colson Whitehead
Post title is "Myths About College Admissions and Students with Learning Disabilities and ADHD." Read the post on LDadvisory.com
Rows of empty seats in a college classroom with quote by Elizabeth - "'People think that if you disclose your disability that they’ll definitely not admit you. Some think if you disclose your disability it’s going to give you this huge jump and you’re going to go over these other students. There’s no data supporting any of that,' says Elizabeth Hamblet, an independent college learning disability specialist and author of Seven Steps to College Success: A Pathway for Students with Disabilities."
Rows of empty seats in a college classroom with quote by Elizabeth - "'People think that if you disclose your disability that they’ll definitely not admit you. Some think if you disclose your disability it’s going to give you this huge jump and you’re going to go over these other students. There’s no data supporting any of that,' says Elizabeth Hamblet, an independent college learning disability specialist and author of Seven Steps to College Success: A Pathway for Students with Disabilities."
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"I see colleagues saying that, for instance, captioning of videos isn't a needed accommodation for a student with ADHD who feels they can better attend to content if they're also reading the dialogue. But it is necessary for a student who is is deaf or hard of of hearing." Read more on substack @LD_ADVISORY
“…you won’t find any wording that explicitly says that students’ plans ‘expire’ or come to an end when students graduate from high school... But this is effectively what happens.” Read more at: https://bit.ly/LDblog101x
Video screen shows a college's disability services page. The speaker says "be aware that it can take anywhere from two to four weeks for this process." Video title is How do Students with Disabilities Get Accommodations at College?"
Quote says "Too often, we apply an arbitrary timeline when it comes to what kids 'should' be doing...Students mature at different times..." Rae Jacobson, Writer with ADHD and Learning Disabilities.
ext says "If you don’t need them, no one can make you use them, but if you panic the night before your first exam, it will be too late to get accommodated for that test, and there typically are no 'do-overs' for exams in college." Picture of Elizabeth C. Hamblet, founder of LD Advisory.
Learn more! What students should take away from college tours (or not). Relationship between Admissions and college disability services offices. What to ask about fee-based support programs. All in Step 5 of my book, 7 Steps to College Success: A Pathway for Students with Disabilities.
Support Bookstores, Not Billionaires — 'anti-prime day' box (June 23–26) with Bookshop.org logo
Cellphone showing cover art for the College Parent Central podcast and a Zoom panel. Title of the episode is Q&A on College Supports for Students with Learning Disabilities. Episode 105
College search week videos. Image of Zoom window with 3 speakers. Title is Students with Disabilities: Admissions Q&A with Rick Clark and Brennan Barnard.
Understood article is titled "Choosing a college: How to help kids weigh the options." Picture of two white college students walking away from the camera wearing backpacks.
Welcome to college search week! Cartoon image of a graduation cap and an open book.
"While you may have heard that testing can't be more than three years old, that is not widely true, though it may be the case at some schools."
Summer reading on parenting teenagers includes The Sleep-Deprived Teen, Bright Kids Who Couldn't Care Less, The Self-Driven Child, Neurodiversity and College, The Gift of Failure, Seven Steps to College Success: A Pathway for Students with Disabilities, Never Enough, and The Naked Roommate: For Parents Only.
Top Page of the Month on LDadvisory.com discusses myths about college admissions for students with learning disabilities and ADHD.
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"If students don't think they have a disability, they likely won't register for the accommodations that are available to them."
Title of ADDitude Magazine article is "College Accommodations Aren't Like High School Accommodations...but don't panic." Text says, " Here's a rundown of the accommodations you might not get - as well as the ones that are feasible in higher education - and how you can be sure to secure disability services in college." Picture of young Black woman studying on the floor of a college library.
Transition Tuesday. Using Summer to Prepare for College. June 16, 2026 at 7:30 EDT. Live on Substack. Elizabeth Hamblet is a middle-aged white woman with long blond hair who's wearing a black blazer and white blouse. Kelley Challen is a middle-aged woman with long, curly, strawberry hair. She's wearing a blue-patterned dress.
"In reading about 80-100 private reports a year for my work at a college disability services office, I see a number of long reports, but they mostly consist of 'boilerplate' text that describes the tests administered to students, not details about how the student performed." Picture of Elizabeth Hamblet, a middle-aged white woman with long blonde hair wearing a black blazer and white shirt.
"...the decision-making process will likely consider the experience of their non-disabled peers and whether what the student is requesting goes beyond providing that equal opportunity."
What you missed in this week's newsletter - featured post is "How high schools can help prepare students with autism for successful college transition." Opening text is visible.
Text says "If your student has relied upon you to provide structure to help stay on task academically, the pull of home may be tempting if they go to school nearby. This could interfere with their adjustment."
Blogpost title is "Myths About Disability Documentation for College Accommodations." Read the post on LDadvisory.com. Picture of Elizabeth C. Hamblet, a middle aged white woman with long blond hair wearing a white shirt.
"the decision-making process will likely consider the experience of their non-disabled peers and whether what the student is requesting goes beyond providing that equal opportunity."
A closed laptop and eyeglasses on a wooden desk. The article is titled "What FERPA Means for You and Your College Student" by Vicki Nelson. Opening text of the article is visible.
Time Magazine article is titled "8 Simple Ways Parents Can Teach Teens to Get Organized." Picture of a white male teen in a blue and red striped shirt face-down in a pile of laundry on a bed.
“They said,’Colleges only provide accommodations for students with physical disabilities.’ This is a lie I’ve seen this creator and others say. What’s disappointing is it’s so easily disproven.” Read more on Substack.
"Some ask others for any specific wording that they think needs to be included in their student’s plan to make sure colleges will have to provide whatever accommodations are written into this plan. These questions speak to people’s mistaken beliefs about what happens at college." Read more on Substack.
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"If students learn that they will need testing to document ADHD at college, they should make sure to print up their school’s requirements and present them to whoever will do the testing, to make sure all that of the required kinds of measures are administered."
“This question came in...roughly two weeks before the end of the term and...the student has already taken one exam in this particular class and in a previous one with the same professor. The timing matters in several ways.” Read more on Substack.
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Top page of the month is a blog post about assignment deadline extensions for students with disabilities - "Are Assignment Deadline Extensions a Commonly Approved Disability Accommodation at College?" Introduction to the post is visible.
"... They can meet the requirements we set for them, like showing up for appointments. They’re somewhat organized. They have a sense of independence. They can set an alarm and get themselves to class, or to a meeting.."- Gabrielle Miller, Executive Director of the SALT Center , University of Arizona.