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Additional Resources for Students with Learning Disabilities

Succeeding on Campus and Beyond

• DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking and Technology) Video Presentations
  DO-IT serves to increase the participation of individuals with disabilities in challenging academic programs and careers. It promotes the use of computer and networking technologies to increase independence, productivity, and participation in education and employment. You will find information, including links to streaming versions, about DO-IT video presentations.

After Graduation

• Patterns of Change and Predictors of Success in Individuals with Learning Disabilities: Results from a Twenty-Year Longitudinal Study
  This article describes research that is part of a larger longitudinal project tracing the lives of a group of individuals with learning disabilities who attended the Frostig Center 20 years ago. Comparisons between successful and unsuccessful individuals on independent and dependent variables are discussed as well as three possible predictors of success.
• Research Publications from the Frostig Center
  This webpage provides various links and research articles to research publications by the Frostig Center regarding learning disabilities
• Starting Out Right: Transition to Employment for Young People with LD
  When an individual with learning disabilities makes the most of the transition process, successful job entry is the probable outcome. However, this initial stage of employment can only be successfully accomplished if the whole transition process is viewed as an interactive one among the young adult making the transition, his co-workers, and the employer.

Student Stories

• Student Stories
  Students with Learning Disabilities and Attention Deficit Disorder at the University of New Hampshire share their stories about being at UNH and how they got there.

General Strategies

• Study Guides and Strategies
  An educational public service helping learners to succeed.
• University of Illinois at Chicago College Study Strategies and Study Tips
  This webpage provides strategies college students around time management, studying, lectures and reading, taking exams, controlling stress and writing.
• Saint Louis University: Success in Mathematics
  Tips on how to study mathematics, how to approach problem-solving, how to study for and take tests, and when and how to get help.
• Dartmouth Academic Skills Center
  Learn proven techniques and strategies for improving academic learning. These four videotapes will help college and university students get the most out of their academic experience. Developed by learning professionals in the Academic Skills Center at Dartmouth College, and produced by the College's Instructional Services video staff.
• Salisbury University Links for Academic Success
  Handouts and self-assessments on various academic topics.
• University of Otago
  Study Guides and Resources in reading, writing and test-taking skills.

Reading Strategies

• Just Read Now
  Just Read Now offers an "up close" look at a range of innovative and effective reading strategies, along with actual classroom examples and associated lesson plans. The Just Read Now strategies can be applied across academic disciplines and learner levels.
• Idaho State University: Reading Strategies
  Dr Kathleen King put together information on reading strategies. She encouraged you to experiment with different methods and see what works for you. The goal is to develop a reading system which will help you in the long term, not just for this class, but for life.
• Reading Strategies: Reading Efficiently by Reading Intelligently
  Good reading strategies help you to read in a very efficient way. Using them, you aim to get the maximum benefit from your reading with the minimum effort. This section will show you how to use 6 different strategies to read intelligently.
• Xavier University: Reading Strategies
  These strategies can help you pay fuller attention to your reading and really get absorbed in it. Included below are some quick tips and some activities for you to try out, including a section on how to read when you don't have time.

Writing Strategies

• The University of Kansas Writing Center
  This site offers a variety of writing strategies including but not limited to: avoiding plagiarism, critical thinking, reading and study strategies, the writing process, writing your research, citing and documenting your sources, grammar and usage, personal and professional writing, theses and dissertations and writing in your courses.
• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Writing Center
  This site is comprised of strategies designed to assist students writing their papers, using citations, guidance on specific types of paper, and assistance in writing for a targeted field of study.

Time Management Strategies

• California Polytechnic State University Academic Skills Center
  Tips to help you manage your time better.
• Study Guides and Strategies: Time Management
  Developing time management skills is a journey that may begin with this Guide, but needs practice and other guidance along the way. One goal is to help yourself become aware of how you use your time as one resource in organizing, prioritizing, and succeeding in your studies in the context of competing activities of friends, work, family, etc.
• University of Minnesota at Dartmouth Time Management Principles
  These are some basic Principles of Time Management that you can apply as a student.

Various Study Strategies: (includes tips on taking notes, test taking and preparation, stress management, scheduling study time, memory improvement, and more)

• University of Minnesota Duluth
  Knowing how to study is like knowing how to fish. It's a set of learning skills that lasts a lifetime and brings many rewards. Just as there are ways to know that you are a competent fisherman, there are also ways to develop study skills competency.
• The Walter E. Dennis Learning Center at Ohio State University
  This site offers useful information in constructing a Q&A (question and answer) outline and dealing with test anxiety.
• The University of Guelph: The Learning Commons
  This site provides the top 40 study strategies with focus upon time management, listening and notetaking, textbook reading and exam preparation.
• University of New England: Learning Strategies
  Managing college reading assignments, taking good notes, and studying for exams can overwhelm many college students from time to time. Click on the links under each topic to access information on each topic.