LD and a college student

Hi there-

Hopefully you attend a college that has an Office of Disabilities/Disabled Student Services; they will probably steer you in the right direction. By the way, I agree that there is too little information on Adults who are Learning Disabled. I wish you a lot of luck!

go to your learning disablities office on campus and show them your evaluation results and you should get accomadations

sometimes there are books on how to survive colege with an LD /add

so you could check on barnes and nobles website or borders website to see about hat

good luck and hang in there
bye
dew

I attended a community and the students with disabilities office was a joke but my instructors were great. All but one did their best to accomodate me.

Maybe I was lucky but part of my LD is caused by TBI and I kept things simple with them by telling them “My brain doesn’t work as good as it used to. I’ve been hit in the head too many times” I let them fill in the blanks.

I did an end run around the students with disabilities office. I also threatened to start a Students with learning disabilities club. They were envisioning sit ins and protests.

my evaluation papers are about seven years old and in my state,Georgia, students with LD need to get reevaluated every three years. my disability services office is very helpful and they provide me with everything. they can only cover me for one year and then i need to get reevaluated. Any pointers?

hang in there:)

see if your school as a free nelson denny
see if your school can suggest a low cost psychologist to do the psychoeducational evaluation??

bye
DEw

Call the Department for Rehabilitative Services. It’s a department run by the state. They will be able to help you to receive the testing you need at no cost. Good Luck.

Make sure that the college that you attend has a program for students with learning disabilities, so that you receive the support you need. If you learn anything, it’s better than not getting anything out of a class. Just Take It One Day At A Time. Keep In Touch with any counselors that you can find that would be a support to you. I hope that this helps.

I teach in a comm college and am an advocate for LD students. I suggest that you register with your school’s office for disabilities and if they have an LD specialist get help from them ASAP. Also let your teachers know and enlist their support.
Good Luck.

what if their isn’t a specialist at the school you want to attend?

Yeah don’t tell the prof, I have seen to may people get kicked out for letting everyone know ,or they start to treat you differently ,”LIKE YOUR SPECIAL” The way way I got through (in a course that required lot of reading writting and math) was to have time that I chose for homework usually 3a.m. to 7a.m. because it was quite and no distrations. But Remember to follow your dreams chances are anything you wanted to attain in life has not been easy but thegreat stuff is worth the struggle. The other thing I did when the going got tough I just remember all those whop said I couldn’t because I was to stupid , I channeled that angry into I’m gonna show you, and before you knew it I had ,my greatest pleasure was runnig into my grade 8 teacher that told me I would amount to nothing but a first class criminal and seeing him got to say thank you for being an A-HOLE of course in a nice way but that sure was a sweet moment in my life, I was there to see him a a professional who had been hire for a students consultation, You know what I was great to see the squrmming that this man had to do in his chair because I was sent in to aid him in how to deal with difficult childerne in his class, so you see what goes around comes around
Bonnie