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Talking to Your Kids About Their Disability

Explaining Your  Disability and Accommodations for College As young adults with disabilities grow up and head to college, parent roles changes dramatically.  These young adults must self -identify, and speak up for themselves when problems arise and be able to identify their accommodations for college. Do your young adults understand their disabilities?  Do they know…

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Dyscalculia

Understand Dyscalculia Dyscalculia is a math learning disability. Many students come to the college Disabilities Office because their struggle with math puzzles them. Their inability to pass math is puzzling and upsetting, yet reading and writing are not issues. What these students do not always realize is that it is possible to have a learning…

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Assistive Technology Examples

Assistive Technology Examples for Students with Disabilities  Updated 9/2020  Students with disabilities often use assistive technology accommodations at college in order to gain equal access.  Assistive technology examples come in all shapes and sizes.  This post includes several assistive technology examples for students to consider.   Assistive Technology Examples • Assistive Technology for Hard of Hearing…

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Memory Strategies

Memory Strategies – How Your Memory Works Do you know how your memory works? What memory strategies do you use? Understanding how you learn and remember is critical to being a success. Memory strategies include  5 steps from input to output. • Input Input is the way you first introduce yourself to the material and…

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Study Tips!

Successful Study Tips -Thinking Outside the Box Do you have any special study tips you like? Did you get completely ready to take your test? Do you do more than read and reread your notes or book? Have you thought outside the box? Here are some easy study tips that you may find helpful!  …

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Dyslexia Interventions

Dyslexia Interventions That Improve Reading When do you need dyslexia interventions?  Is a learning disability the same thing as dyslexia? You can Google a list of famous people who are dyslexic, but what exactly is dyslexia? Dyslexia is one type of learning disability that involves reading and writing. Often people use the term dyslexia because…

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Time Management

Time Management and Studying Effective time management is critical in our daily lives.  Time is precious. You can become a successful student if you figure out a way to use smart time management and study techniques that don’t waste your precious time.  Look at the following 5 easy steps to use time management to become…

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Universal Design for Learning

Universal Design for Learning – UDL Online Module During my tenure as the Director of the Florida Consortium, I developed an online module for Universal Design for Learning.  Specifically, this module provides a “user-friendly” resource for postsecondary faculty. Universal Design for Learning for Postsecondary Education (UDL) is a free interactive online module.  It teaches UDL…

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Wounded Veterans

Wounded Veterans and College Accommodations Many of our wounded veterans are returning home and taking classes at college. Often they are reluctant to seek class accommodations for medical issues sustained during military service.  Toughing out the pain is a normal desire, and we all do it.  However, physical and emotional pain impacts the wounded veteran’s…

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Modifications & Accommodations

Modifications and Accommodations: Understanding the Difference Modifications and accommodations are not the same. High school provides both modifications and accommodations. College only provides accommodations.  Do you know the difference?  Does your child know the difference?    As your children with disabilities are graduating from high school and heading to college, the process for seeking accommodations…

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Metacognition

What is Metacognition and Why Does it Matter?  Metacognition is “thinking about thinking.”    As parents or educators, one of our responsibilities is to teach our children how to think.  So many times I meet college students for the first time.  When I ask them a question, they immediately turn to the parents for the answer. …

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How to Talk to College Faculty

How to Talk to College Faculty about Your Disability   How to talk to college faculty about your disability is a personal decision.  Consequently, you do not need to identify your diagnosis.  How much you reveal about your disability is up to you.  Faculty is not told your diagnosis, but simply gets your accommodation memo.   …

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High School to College Transition: What Happens Next?

High School to College Transition: What Happens Next? High school to college transition will differ from one college to another.  Every college must provide disability related services; however, each institution establishes its own specific accommodations, and those accommodations are determined from the documentation provided by students who self-identify. High school to college transition requires work…

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Successful Memory Tips

10 Successful Memory Tips Use successful memory tips for short term memory problems Your chosen  successful memory tips are critical when committing something to your memory.  Some students have short term memory problems, and they lose the information shortly after they learn it. That is the “Here today, gone tomorrow” memory problem often seen in…

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Understand the Learning Process

Understand the Learning Process in 5 Easy Steps Understand the learning process to connect it to a learning disability.   1. Input 1. Input is the student’s ability to receive your message. Letters and words might get mixed up, reading might be slow, and spelling and math calculation can be very difficult. Dyslexia interferes during input.…

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