Grad School Launch
Strengths-based transition support for neurodivergent learners entering graduate and professional school.
Graduate school often assumes you already know how to manage complex reading, research, writing, technology, relationships, and largely self-directed work.
Graduate School Launch starts somewhere else: with you. We begin by understanding your strengths, learning patterns, experiences, and sources of support, then build practical approaches for the academic environment you are about to enter.
Start With What You’re Bringing
Graduate School Launch begins with a strengths assessment and a conversation about how those strengths actually show up in your learning, work, relationships, and problem-solving.
Understand the Story You’re Carrying
ND learners often arrive at grad school carrying old narratives about being disorganized, inconsistent, difficult, or not living up to their potential.
Graduate School Launch helps examine those stories, recover a clearer understanding of your strengths and learning patterns, and turn that self-knowledge into practical self-advocacy.
The goal is simple: know what helps, know what gets in the way, and know how to ask for what you need.
Navigate the Program and Advocate for Yourself
Graduate School Launch helps you understand the expectations of the specific program you’re entering using information you provide—such as syllabi, handbooks, reading lists, or program requirements.
Together, we identify likely points of friction, available supports, and ways to communicate effectively with faculty, advisors, and accessibility services. The goal is to help you enter with a clearer sense of the terrain and greater confidence advocating for what you need.
Build Your Academic Toolkit and Support Network
We help you develop practical systems for graduate-level reading, highlighting and annotation, research with Google Scholar, source management with Zotero, and responsible AI use—including AI as an access support.
We also map the people, tools, services, and relationships you identify as potential vectors of support, so you leave with both practical strategies and a clearer network to draw on when challenges arise.