College for Students with Learning Disabilities

A School Counselor’s Guide to Fostering Success

• Author(s): Mati Sicherer,
• Publisher: Routledge
• Pages: 250
• ISBN_10: 0429638566
  ISBN_13: 9780429638565
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Education / Special Education / Learning Disabilities , Psychology / Psychopathology / Attention-Deficit Disorder (ADD-ADHD) , Psychology / Psychopathology / Autism Spectrum Disorders , Education / Special Education / Developmental & Intellectual Disabilities , Education / Special Education / Behavioral, Emotional & Social Disabilities , Education / Adult & Continuing Education ,

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College for Students with Learning Disabilities is the high school counselor’s best resource for preparing college-bound students with learning disabilities and related disorders.

Through a comprehensive lens, the book provides an overview of learning disabilities and related issues as they apply to the role of the high school counselor. The 6- to 8-week program outlined in the book provides a step-by-step guide for high school counselors to create and implement the program in their own schools. Each area of the program is explored in detail, covering topics such as college readiness, study skills, self-advocacy, and picking the right school.

Drawing on the lived experience of students with learning disabilities, current research, case studies and more, College for Students with Learning Disabilities advises counselors in a positive way and aims to change the lives of students with learning disabilities by preparing them for college in an effective, concrete way.