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Uploaded by on Mar 30, 2010

Melana Zyla Vickers, education and public policy columnist, discusses the Pope Center's most recent paper: "Accommodating College Students with Learning Disabilities: ADD, ADHD, and Dyslexia." (Part 2 of 4)

A transcript of the event is available here: http://www.popecenter.org/acrobat/Accommodating-College-Students-with-Learnin...

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  • @townkevin59

    wow. I'm so sorry. I'll be praying for you. I'm on SSI and SSDI too. I'm 24. I live in a subsidized/section 8 housing. 

  • @alterbridgefan99 Sorry to hear that. It was very humiliating once the college kicked me off campus. I have no more than a 6th grade Education because I left school at the age of 15 out of frustration. I lost my job and now live on $700 a month SSD & SSI, which is one step away from becomming homeless as the cost of living continues to rise. I will be turning 41 next month, and I don't know what to do anymore. Everyday, I dream of the life I wish I had instead.

  • @townkevin59

    Man, or girl! That's what I'm terrified about!!! I have NVLD (Non Verbal Learning Disability) Thanks to my NVLD I have really bad Dyscalculia. Even with grocery shopping I get overwhelmed and have a panic attack. A "normal persons" math score is or should be 50 or above....even in High School, my math score was 4. Technically I am mathematically retarded. I lost one job cause I had to take calls and write down phone #'s and I ALWAYS mess up the last 4 numbers.

  • How can I attend a college and possibly pass the difficult math with severe Dyscalculia? I struggled the last time I attended a local college, and couldn't do the work, and my local community College asked me to hand in my books and leave the campus. I will never forget it for as long as I live.

  • To continue-- I was glad toward the end when she observes with some suprise hopw readily and willingly those in the work of dissabilities and the students with them volunteered information. She attributes this to the commitment to helping the "truuely dissabled." Lets not over look the way the need to accomodate the ld students has resulted in a greater awareness of educational options and a greater pedegogical vision that born in faculty and staff have resulted in benefit to all students.

  • I do need to listen to the rest of the discussion but wanted to coment on some things so far. Vickers describes how the fact that a student has had an accomodation is not noted on their scores or assesments and ther ways in which the process and facts of accomodations are kept secret and hidden from other students etc. and evokes a conspiricy aproach when what she is descruibing is how students medical information is being honored as something private.

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