If you’re a high school senior with a learning disability — or if you’ve struggled in school despite trying your best — you might benefit from specialized academic support when you’re in college. The ...
Helena Donato-Sapp is a 14-year-old activist with a searing message for educators: Do more to be a champion for students with disabilities. Helena has four learning disabilities—a visual processing ...
Poverty Transitions among Families Supporting a Child with Intellectual Disability. Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability 35 (4), 224-234 (Emerson ...
Students with learning disabilities (LD) struggle with particular skills like reading, writing, or mathematics and often require additional, individualized support to fill educational gaps. A team of ...
Landmark College, the first college in the United States for students with learning disabilities, is growing enrollment in its online courses. The rural Vermont college is designed exclusively for ...
Anyone new to the field of learning disability or in need of an induction programme specific to this client group will find this book to be a useful practice tool. This workbook, one in a series of ...
The first time Tammy Carrillo enrolled at East Los Angeles College (ELAC), she didn’t know she had a learning disability. She also hadn’t thought of herself as college material. At her continuation ...
The University of California, San Francisco, recently made a new accommodation available to students with disabilities: “release time” to attend medical appointments. “Very often that is therapy,” ...
The term "learning disorder" describes a condition in which a person with normal or above average intelligence does not achieve at the expected level in academic areas. This gap in performance is ...