Matt Cohen is a special education lawyer who answers questions regarding LD and special education law on the LD Online website. For the latest questions and answers, and for the archive, click here!
Full Story »Preparing an LD student for College
Preparing a student for college can be challenging, particularly if that student has learning differences. They have to be academically prepared, yes, but they also need to be prepared for independence. Lack of the ability to cope and to be independent is the most frequent reason for an LD student to return home from college, in my experience.
Full Story »Thanksgiving thoughts from Tam
My son is on a plane as I write, heading home for Thanksgiving. He is a freshman at the University of Redlands, and he is loving every moment of it. Sadly, my daughter won’t be home this year, she is in Maine with family, and we will miss her. She is doing a postgrad program in photography at BU. I will also see many of my “other children”, friends of my children and students both past and present. I am looking forward to seeing them all, but I am also reflecting on Tracy Fisher, my student and blogger who passed away so suddenly just a month ago.
Full Story »Tam’s Cool Majors: Video Game Design (like Grandma’s Boy!)
Yes, you can major in video games! Well, sort of. Often it is disguised as “interactive media” and “digital imaging” or something of that nature, but basically, video gaming is becoming both a career choice and a college major
Full Story »Community Service: it is good for you!
How important is it to have Community Service on one’s college resume? Perhaps not as important as actually performing Community Service!
Full Story »Just an update
I can’t believe my freshman year of college is already almost half over. It has gone by so fast! Faster then high school. I have final exams coming up and I’m nervous. And I’m also not nervous. I think I’m just nervous because they will be my first college final exams but I’m not nervous because it will just be like all the other tests I’ve had already just longer.
Full Story »College for students with Learning Differences
Students with learning differences of all types go to college, and do well. But when it comes time to choose the college….choose wisely. There are many different types of programs out there, from the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) accommodations only to coordinated disability services to Comprehensive programs for students with Learning Disabilities.
Full Story »Blog from LFC: Part 3
Fall break was filled with a lot of first time experiences. I took the Amtrak with Laura and Melanie to Champaign-Urbana, IL, which is where Melanie lives and Laura lives 30 minutes south from. Laura lives in a small town called Tuscola, IL.
Full Story »Get Answers about Community College
Dr Kay McClenney has been answering reader questions on the NY Times Choice Blog this week about Community Colleges. I blogged earlier in the week about Dr McClenney, she is the director of the Center for Community College Student Engagement at the University of Texas in Austin. This report is a measure of student engagement at community colleges as the National Survey of Student Engagement is to four year institutions. The findings are important: the most critical factor for success at a community college is connection.
Full Story »Behind the Scenes Exclusive!
So as I was sitting with Tam at dinner last week and I started explaining everything to her about life down at the big UT Austin, I realized that there’s a lot to say on here about well… everything! It’s not a common world for everyone and I shouldn’t just assume you know what I’m talking about.
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