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Navigating Postsecondary Education with Learning Disabilities

This guide explores postsecondary preparation, support programs, legal issues, and barriers faced by college students with LD. Learn about faculty attitudes, advantages, and more.

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Navigating Postsecondary Education with Learning Disabilities

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  1. Post-Secondary and Adulthood Traits Services Legal Issues

  2. Barriers in a postsecondary setting • Postsecondary Preparation • Tracked into Vocational Ed. • Faculty Attitudes • College professors are content specialists and not educational specialists • Advantages vs. Access • Support Programs

  3. Incidence Rates • 3:1 ratio - LD:No LD • 17% of LD attended college • Only 2% of all LD attended a 4 yr college • 22% of High School LD wanted to attend college

  4. Typical Profile of College Student with LD • Above Average IQ • Deficits in: • Spelling/Decoding • Memory • Strengths in: • Persistence • Metacognitive • Major • Social Science • Education

  5. Gender & College • 51% Males - 49% females - college LD • 44% Males - 56% Females - normal college • LD 2.5% more male • Female LD more likely for college

  6. College Admission • Can’t ask about disability status • College admission tests must be administered with accommodations • “Unstandardized Administration” • Colleges are not required to change requirements of admission for LD

  7. College LD Documentation • Less than 3 yrs old • Qualified Diagnostician • Aptitude and Achievement Testing • Universities do not have to pay for testing • Not under IDEA

  8. College Service Programs • Centralized • Separate, special tutors, admitted to college & program • High cost • Landmark College • Decentralized • In-House, tutorial services, • No cost • Purdue University

  9. Services offered • Academic tutoring & counseling • Liaison with faculty • Special classes in study skills • Registration assistance • Test-taking facilitation • Notetakers • Books on tape • Residence assistance

  10. University Policies • Accommodations • Test-Taking • Instructional • Substitutions • FL Courses • Math Courses • Waivers • Waiver of exit test

  11. Legal Issues • Section 504 of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act of 1973 • All institutions • Civil Rights Legislation • Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) • Included all provisions of 504 • Extended to employment

  12. Section 504 & IDEA Comparisons • IDEA Comparisons • Definition Overhead • Requirements Overhead • Section 504 Plan

  13. Employment Issues • Wayne State University Story • 72% of employers would employ LD • 18% would not make special accommodations • 51% would hire LD as supervisors • 5% would fire LD for not telling them that they were LD • 36% LD would not tell employers

  14. Reasons given not to hire LD • Not fair to others • Too costly • Existing company policy • Availability of non-disabled workers • Existing union contracts

  15. Americans with Disabilities of 1990 • Employers cannot refuse to hire an otherwise qualified individual • State & local govt. and retailers cannot discriminate • Transportation & telephone access

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