accomodations

Hi,

When I was in high school there were no accomodations, there was no appropriate testing, no one had a clue why kids like me had problems learning. I had tutors, but I wouldn’t call that an effective accomodation. They were really nice intuitive people who wanted to help, but didn’t know how. No one did. With their help though I managed to graduate with my class, but that’s all.

By the time I was in college I knew I was a highly visual person, an art student, and I intuitively sought out visual representations of what I needed to learn. This helped a lot in my academics. I sat in the front of the class so I could see the board clearly, the instructor’s face, gestures and body language. In my academic classes I did best when the lectures followed the textbook very closely so I didn’t have to rely on my lousy notes, and in ones that used film and overhead projections in color. Also did well in classes that were mostly field work, like internships, where we worked in groups. These things were all hit or miss though and only addressed some of the problems I have. I didn’t really see the whole pattern until years later.

Hope this helps.

Until I was in fifth grade, I was in LD, went to the resource room every day.But Dad had me dropped from LD- against the reccomendations of the school psychologist and other school officials. From there, I recieved no accomodations…Also, I knew better than to ask for them or face stiff, and harsh consequences from my stepmother if I HAD asked for them…Guess you could say that I really fell between the cracks of the system….But I AM definitely thankful and grateful for the time I WAS in the LD program I needed to be in. I’m just darned lucky to have graduated from High School, as it is.
Genita

I got none in high school and none in college the first time I went. When I returned as an adult student I never got any official accomodations from the Students with disabilities office but all but one instructor was very helpful. Their doors were always open to me for extra help.

I had to drop a course in wiring and codes because most of the tests were based on looking stuff up in the National electrical code book. Avery confusing book for anyone. I needed accomodation but noe was forth coming.

The NEC is a joke for the most part anyway after all it was written by engineers and lawyers. I CAN read and understand the book probably better that the commitee of chimpanzees that wrote it. It just took me longer. And if need be I could pay off an electrical inspector.

reader for most tests…..
extended time for most tests
books on cd-rom
and some support…..