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Download full textWren, Carol; Segal, Laura – 1985
This booklet is intended to help parents and students better understand the nature of learning disabilities at the college level and to help faculty and staff involved with learning-disabled students in higher education programs. The personal story of a female college student with a learning disability appears on the left-hand side of each…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Classroom Techniques, College Students, Educational Diagnosis
Peer reviewedBarton, D. D. – Journal of Visual Impairment & Blindness, 1997
Chronicles the experiences and feelings of the authors, parents of a son who was blind from birth. It describes their encounters with the public educational system from kindergarten to college, concentrating on the boy's adolescent years, from middle school to college. Also discussed are mainstreaming, friendships, time management, contact with…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Blindness, Case Studies
Peer reviewedMerlin, Debrah S. – Gifted Child Today Magazine, 1997
The mother of a 14-year-old college freshman recounts her daughter's educational development and experience at various schools. She describes the different attitudes of teachers and administrators and her difficulty in obtaining an appropriate education for her daughter. She concludes that her daughter is finally appropriately placed academically,…
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Acceleration (Education), Case Studies, College Freshmen
Bogue, E. Grady – 1991
The essays in this monograph are intended to give visibility to the nature and nobility of teaching. The volume is a reflective celebration and an elevation of the call to teaching. Chapter titles include: "Acts of Teaching"; "A Good Question"; "A Good School"; "Lessons for Learners"; "A Need to…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Quality, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education
Morfee, Pat; Morfee, Tom – Exceptional Parent, 1987
Parents describe how the Disabled Students' Program at the University of California-Berkeley supported their daughter with cerebral palsy in pursuing an independent college career. Two vignettes describing college students' (with muscular dystrophy and physical disabilities) adjustment at Boston University are presented. (CB)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Cerebral Palsy, College Programs, College Students
Ellis, William, Ed. – Their World, 1993
This 1993 edition offers 23 papers on various aspects of learning disabilities, presented in four sections on: (1) social and emotional dimensions of learning disabilities, (2) creative environments for students with learning disabilities, (3) thoughts for parents, and (4) thinking about college. Articles include, among others: "Building Strength…
Descriptors: Child Rearing, College Bound Students, College Preparation, Creative Development
Wren, Carol; And Others – 1987
This booklet discusses the possibility of college for learning-disabled student and encourages high school students interested in going on to college to carefully prepare themselves. The booklet offers the personal stories of two learning disabled (LD) students, one of whom was diagnosed as LD in third grade while the other was not diagnosed until…
Descriptors: Case Studies, College Bound Students, College Choice, College Preparation
