Finding and Funding the Right-Fit College for the Neurodiverse College Applicant
In this webinar, Lynda Kommel Browne, an advocate and financial advisor focusing on disability, mental health and incapacity planning for all ages, will share her most recent discussions with the Disability Services Offices of over 30 colleges, on how families can support their students in choosing the right-fit college, accessing disability services in college, and positioning the student for success in the college admissions process. She will be joined by David Browne, an independent admissions and educational consultant with extensive experience guiding students with learning differences through the college admissions process. In this most up to date, comprehensive overview, Lynda and David will address:
- Thriving with Learning Differences, Disabilities, or Mental Health Conditions
- Assessing “Disability Office” Services
- Funding College w/ ABLE & 529 Tax-Favored Savings Plans
- Positioning the Neurodiverse Candidate for Maximum Admission Success
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About Lynda Kommel-Browne, Bleakley Financial Group:
After a thirty-year career on Wall Street, Lynda joined Bleakley Financial Group to lead the SPECIAL LIFE TEAM, delivering financial planning, advisory and wealth management services centered on empowering families to protect and sustain their “special life.” Lynda is one of a small group of financial professionals in the US to hold three complementary designations: Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®), Chartered Special Needs Consultant (CHSNC®), and Certified Divorce Financial Analyst (CDFA®). She also holds her Life, Health & Long-Term Care insurance licenses. Lynda is further certified in Interdisciplinary Collaborative Divorce and is a Mosten Guthrie Trained Divorce and Family Mediator (MC3 Approved).
Lynda is a mother of five children from young teens to young twenties, with learning differences, classic non-verbal autism, chronic health issues, and even through a devastating auto collision of her parents and two kids. She productively rises to address hurdles at every turn with strength, creativity and a never-say-never attitude. Her team’s landing page is www.specialife.com and her email is lynda.kommel-browne@bleakley.com Lynda can be reached by phone via her mobile: (917) 374-6948.
About David Browne:
David Browne is a Westport-CT based independent admissions and educational consultant, with a unique approach helping students stand out applying human behavioral insights from his experience as a strategic change partner at Accenture and creative marketing and communications skills from his time at Ogilvy. He has a track record of helping 90+% of his clients gain admissions into their top two school choices.
David is a graduate of Bronx Science, the Wharton School (Penn) and Columbia Business School, and is the father of five children, with one at Dartmouth and two graduates of NYU and Babson college respectively. As a dad of a severely disabled teenage son on the autism spectrum he also serves twice and thrice exceptional high school students with learning differences, disabilities and mental health challenges achieve their most ambitious and appropriate college admissions.
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