How Colleges Can Better Serve Students with Learning Disabilities
From: Campus Technology - 12/18/2014
By: Dennis Pierce

Although assistive technologies and other supports can help, too few students
who need them take advantage.

Students who have learning disabilities often face steep challenges in making
the jump from high school to higher education, and these challenges go well
beyond the shift to more intensive, college-level work.

The transitioning of students with learning disabilities from high school to
college "is a very important issue, and it often gets overlooked," said Tracy
Gray, managing researcher for education at the American Institutes for
Research. A nationally known expert in improving opportunities for students
with disabilities, Gray used to head the now-defunct National Center for
Technology Innovation, which supported researchers and entrepreneurs in
creating new assistive technologies to help all students learn.

While assistive technologies can help with this transition, Gray and other
disability specialists warn that too few college-level students are taking
advantage of these kinds of tools, and they say campus leaders need to be
more active in addressing the challenges students with learning disabilities
face at their institutions.

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