The College is strongly committed to providing excellent support to students with documented learning disabilities, 关注困难, 以及其他特殊需求. An individually structured program has been designed to accommodate our students. Professionals who have earned graduate degrees in the fields of Education, 教育心理学, 特殊教育, 咨询, and Reading work to help each student design strategies for academic success.

Accommodation Plans are determined through a review of the documentation provided by the student and the recommendation of the student’s 综合顾问, 谁与每个人密切合作. The student will have access to our foundational services prior to, 在, 在参加了我们的收费项目之后. The following services are provided 在适当的时候 to the needs of the student:

• 来自 综合顾问 who plans and coordinates accommodation of student needs and acts as liaison with other departments of the College. 综合顾问 mentors the student through graduation with intensive emphasis on the student’s first and second years.
• 每周一对一的学术策略指导.
• 支持向大学水平的学术过渡.
• 个性化住宿计划，根据需要进行更新.
• 优惠登记 and specialized academic advising for the first three semesters.
• 延长考试时间和单独考试地点 符合条件的学生.
• 记笔记 在适当的时候.
• 另一种教科书格式，1.e., available computer software, enlarged print, digital textbooks.
• Utilization of the Lindamood-Bell ® approach to learning (this program is fee-based).
• 导师优势计划 customized professional tutoring hours are available as requested (this program is fee-based).
• 白天和晚上入住: A professional tutor will be on duty to provide organizational and academic support 12.每天5小时在导师优势学习区学习, 星期一至星期五, while the College is in session (no evening hours on Friday).
• Peer-Based Tutoring is an all-campus service, not limited to students with learning disabilities.
• Study Groups: Peer-led study groups may be organized for some classes not covered by the Walk-In Tutoring Program. If students need help for a class in a department not listed on the Walk-In Tutor schedule, 他们会联系导师. The Tutor Supervisor works with the professor who teaches the class to organize a study group for the class. Study group times and locations will be announced in the class. 这是全校范围的服务.

Each student who is enrolled in the Learning Center foundational services for students with diagnosed disabilities will have the opportunity to meet with a 综合顾问 on a weekly basis. Many of our students tell us the 综合顾问 relationship is key to making the transition to college life; our first-year students have described the 综合顾问 as an “anchor.”

综合顾问 offers to work with students in the following ways:

• Developing academic, organizational, and self-monitoring strategies.
• 讨论优先级和动机观.
• Deciding about accommodations to be used for college classes.
• Self-Advocacy coaching to describe needed accommodations to faculty.
• Advising for academic schedules the first three semesters with preferential registration.
• 连接到我们的项目支持系统内的服务.
• Linking with other campus offices for extra-curricular referral and support.
• Processing the individual’s transition to college and general functioning.

In order that we may provide for the academic needs of our students and make judgments regarding specialized program placement, 学生应提交一份教育评估, 在过去的两到三年内完成, 给学习中心主任打电话. Documentation will include the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS) and the Woodcock-Johnson Standard Achievement Battery. Alternate achievement assessment will be considered with the approval of the Director of the Learning Center. 包括数字分数和叙述报告, which interpret a perceived or diagnosed learning disability, 是必需的. Additional materials, such as an Individual Educational Plan (IEP), will also be helpful.

Our students are rising adults; therefore, the Learning Center employs a self-advocacy approach to disability disclosure.

综合顾问 will give each student a personalized letter for each professor. The letter states the name and contact information of the student’s 综合顾问 and acknowledges the existence of the student’s learning disability.

• 综合顾问 will coach each student to describe the need for accommodations to faculty.
• The student should share this letter with the professor of the class for which accommodations are being requested.
• The professor may contact the student’s 综合顾问 as a resource in providing effective strategies that may enhance the learning process or to verify the accommodation request.

Each student’s educational evaluation/disability documentation will be kept in a locked file in the Learning Center office. 再次重申, the Learning Center does not notify the student’s professor; the student is responsible for making a specific request to the professor of each class to implement authorized accommodations.

以获得考试住宿, the student must provide the required documentation for the disability in a timely manner to the Learning Center office and must comply with the procedures for accommodations that have been described in the Learning Center Handbook.