CCB Educational Consulting

As the founder of CCB Educational Consulting Corp., Christina Cacioppo Bertsch has the resources and background necessary to help make your child’s transition to post-secondary seamless. Having worked as a university Disability Services administrator as well as a secondary educator, she now works as a special education consultant, providing one-on-one college admissions consulting for special ed. students and their families. Her extensive experience guides her as she assists students in finding the college that’s the best fit for them and best sets them up for success.

Before becoming a college consultant, Ms. Bertsch was the Director of Disability Services at Fordham University where she coordinated graduate and undergraduate accommodations for the university’s three campuses. She also conducted university-wide training workshops for faculty, staff and administrators and created training documents for the University community. Prior to her work at Fordham, she was an instructor and administrator at Regis High School, a prestigious scholarship school for the gifted and talented in Manhattan. Regis places many of its students in Ivy League and other highly competitive universities.

Ms. Bertsch worked for the Federation for Children with Special Needs located in Boston, MA, where she served as a research associate as well as an educator to parents regarding the IDEA and disability law issues.

Ms. Bertsch received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from Boston College. She earned a graduate assistantship at Boston College and interned at the United Nations’ Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW) shortly after completing her studies.

Since becoming a disability educational consultant, Ms. Bertsch has become affiliated with the Association for Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) and the Western Suffolk Counselors Association (WSCA). She has also been appointed to be a board member for the Long Island Branch of the International Dyslexic Association (IDA).