Taking Flight: The Guide to College for Diverse Learners and Non-Traditional Students

Taking Flight provides the essential information students with disabilities will need to be successful in college.

Rather than just focusing on the academic skills needed in college, Taking Flight addresses college as a system that needs to be mastered and the strategies and self-awareness needed to be successful. Thus, it explores topics including:

The concept of disability

Self-expression

The college bureaucracy

Roommate relationships

And having fun!

Perry T. LaRoque explores these topics by using personal stories, humor, frank advice, and years of expertise. Taking Flight addresses the truly relevant topics and issues needed for happiness and success in college and provides readers with not only how to do well in the system, but how to overcome a system not designed for today’s diverse learners.

Perry LaRoque, PhD is the Founder and President of Mansfield Hall, an innovative residential college support program for students with autism spectrum disorders and other related learning differences, located in Burlington, VT, Madison, WI and Eugene, OR. Prior to launching Mansfield Hall, Perry co-founded the College Steps Program and was involved in developing the Think College programs in Vermont. He also served as a special education professor at Johnson State College, SUNY-Potsdam, and UW-Whitewater. Before completing his doctorate in Special Education at the University of Wisconsin, Perry was a special education teacher in California and Wisconsin. He currently resides in Milwaukee, WI with his wife and three children.