Posted in Colleges, Education Issues and Ideas on Feb 1st, 2012 No Comments »
Recently someone and I had an exchange about the notion of extra time as an accommodation for standardized tests such as the SAT. He brought up some good questions. Here’s one of them and my reply: Him: “Let’s talk about SAT tests. The fact that a neurotypical student benefits from extra time seems to indicate [...]
Posted in Colleges, Education Issues and Ideas, LD Support Organizations on Dec 20th, 2011 No Comments »
The Anne Ford and Allegra Ford Scholarships offer financial assistance to two graduating seniors with documented learning disabilities (LD) who are pursuing post-secondary education. The Anne Ford Scholarship was first awarded in 2002; in 2009, with a generous donation from Anne’s daughter, Allegra, the award was renamed the Anne Ford and Allegra Ford Scholarship and [...]
Posted in Colleges, Computers and Software, Education Issues and Ideas, Learning Materials, Technology Issues and Ideas on Nov 3rd, 2011 No Comments »
wohnai/flickr From Good.is The average community college student in Washington spends about $1,200 per year on textbooks. I know that as a society we’re probably in the infancy of this movement to digitize textbooks and in a variety of ways, bring down the costs of textbooks to students. I don’t understand how they deal with [...]
Posted in Colleges, Education Issues and Ideas on Oct 24th, 2011 No Comments »
After reading this article in the NY Times online, two themes emerged in my head: 1. Create curriculum for entrepreneurship at the high school level and, 2. the Cass Business School study that identified upwards of 35% of successful serial entrepreneurs in the US self-identified as having dyslexia and/or ADHD. I’m a big fan of [...]
Posted in Colleges, Education Issues and Ideas on Sep 19th, 2011 No Comments »
From Good.is “How to Break the Cycle of Remedial College Classes” Interesting slant on the over-reliance and perhaps, misuse of remedial classes at the community college level. “The proof initially emerged with many students transferring from San Diego’s West Hills High School to their local community college. Like many of their fellow freshmen nationally, a [...]
Posted in Colleges, LD Support Organizations, Learning Disabilities and Mental Health, News on Sep 14th, 2011 2 Comments »
Jeremy Snyder and Julie Platt, students at Wesleyan University, are starting a university chapter of Project Eye-to-Eye, a national mentoring project for children with learning disabilities. In this article from the Wesleyan Argus, the students describe their start-up process this summer and the goals of Eye-to-Eye. They’re looking for about a dozen high caliber and [...]
Posted in Colleges, Discussion Topics on Jul 24th, 2011 4 Comments »
In this Washington Post blog entry, Meghan Benzel, who graduated with an associate’s degree from Landmark College in Vermont in May, talks about what she believes led to her success. What I like is how her path to life and school success includes multiple stops. She starts with an associates degree from college and will [...]
Posted in Colleges on May 11th, 2011 No Comments »
This is a link to Lori Kobelan’s site. It looks like she’s put a lot of time into cateloguing various options for pursuing a Master’s degree in Teaching.
Posted in Colleges on Apr 15th, 2011 No Comments »
A story on National Public Radio highlighting the increasing number of colleges in the United States that support students with ASD, particularly I would say, those with Asperger’s. This is great to see. There are other colleges besides the ones mentioned that have mentoring and other support services available. [via Richard Wanderman]
Posted in Colleges on Nov 1st, 2008 26 Comments »
Colleges with Programs for Learning Disabled Students An extensive list with lots of other resources as well.
Posted in Colleges on Mar 13th, 2008 No Comments »
Clark University 950 Main Street Worcester, MA 01610 508-793-7711 www.clarku.edu/offices/aac/ada/
Posted in Colleges on Mar 10th, 2008 4 Comments »
UC Berkeley Extension Counseling & Psychotherapy 1995 University Ave., Suite 110 Berkeley, CA 94704-7000 510-642-4111 510-642-0374 fax info@unex.berkeley.edu www.unex.berkeley.edu/counseling/