1. Purchase used books if available. If a book is an old edition it may still be used if there hasn’t been any significant change.
2. Get your required books at the library if they are available and renew them when necessary. Most libraries have one or two copies of the class books in their inventory. *State Universities can use Ohio Link to access interlibrary loans from any other state of Ohio university library.

Parents, Counselors, Teachers and Students with learning disabilities may use this list as a reminder of helpful skills and necessary steps to take as a high school student with a learning disability progresses toward college.

Youngstown Area ACLD Learning Center

118 East Wood Street

Youngstown, Ohio 44503

330-746-0604

Does not accept insurance

Approximate Testing Cost: $350

Copley Counseling Center Inc.​

Lynn Ross DiMarzio-Bertolini,Ph.D.

908 Sahara Trail Suite 2

Poland, Ohio 44514

330-726-2965

Insurance accepted

Creekside Counseling Center

Thomas Kupec, Clinical Counselor

Improving the Effectiveness of Your Lectures

Developed by William L. Heward
The Ohio State University Partnership Grant
Improving the Quality of Education for Students with Disabilities

This is a practical guide for professors to accommodate students with disabilities and enhance student learning. As a teacher, you can make substantial and rewarding contributions as well. It is helpful to understand several major concerns that these students face.

By Jane Jarrow*

Rarely a month goes by without someone in higher education facing request to modify attendance requirements to accommodate a student with a disability. Students also occasionally ask to be excused from faculty members’ rules about tardiness. Rather than considering any waiver of attendance requirements, this article focuses on the possibility of modifying existing policies as an accommodation.

Working with Students with Disabilities

1. It is illegal to ask any student what his/her disability is. Instead ask how his/her disability affects the learning process for them and how you can be of assistance.
2. It is important to province a student with a disability a sense of understanding that he/she may need some special accommodations. It is illegal to “single out” a student with a disability, ridicule, or treat him/her in a negative manner.

To ensure Inclusion, Freedom, and Respect for people with disabilities, we must use people first language.

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug." 

Mark Twain

Who are “the handicapped” or “the disabled?”

According to stereotypical myths, they are;