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title: 'Video: College students on the best things their parents did for them'
description: Watch as students from Landmark College, a school for young adults with learning disabilities, talk about how their parents helped them prepare for college.
slug: video-college-students-on-the-best-things-their-parents-did-for-them
author: The Understood Team
published: '2019-10-16T11:49:44.917Z'
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source_url: https://www.understood.org/en/articles/video-college-students-on-the-best-things-their-parents-did-for-them
lang: en
---

# Video: College students on the best things their parents did for them

Many parents of kids with learning and thinking differences hope their children will go to [college](https://www.understood.org/en/articles/college-prep-what-you-need-to-know). Hear from these students at Landmark College on what their parents did — and didn’t do — to get them where they are today.

[![Video](https://cdn-images.understood.org/p0qf7j048i0q/070914FF39284B7A890B378C624078A4/40bbc92171976f41c5928ba1edde1da6/Video-_College_Students_on_the_Best_Things_Their_Parents_Did.jpg)](https://www.youtube.com/embed/pLmAy4D0HnI)

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