Self-Advocacy Opens Doors

04/Sep/2010 11:59 AM Filed in: Self-Advocacy

More and more students with learning disabilities are attending college; however many of these students are not performing as well as their non-disabled peers. Why? According to the National Longitudinal Transition Study-2, completed in 2009, fifty-five percent of postsecondary students who were identified by their secondary schools as having a disability did not consider themselves to have a disability by the time they transitioned to postsecondary school. Thirty-seven percent of postsecondary students with disabilities identified themselves as having a disability and informed their postsecondary schools of their disability. Twenty-four percent of postsecondary students who were identified as having a disability by their secondary schools were reported to receive accommodations or supports from their postsecondary schools because of their disability. In contrast, when these postsecondary students were in high school, 84 percent received some type of accommodation or support because of a disability.

What happened here? Why are students thinking they no longer have a disability, when it has impacted their education all through school? Read More...