Yale Daily News

Updated: Saturday, November 21, 2009 8:52 a.m.

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Univ. to implement disability counseling

Staff Reporter
Published Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Students with disabilities may have an added incentive to choose Yale over its rivals — at least by the time 2013 rolls around.

When it implements a new “peer mentors” program as part of its reform of the freshman counselor system in fall 2009, Yale will be the first Ivy League school to provide student-to-student guidance geared specifically toward freshmen with physical, mental and learning disabilities. Although Yale’s Resource Office on Disabilities already matches students who identify themselves as disabled with one another informally, the new program will likely...

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