New Student Seminar class for someone on AS

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Greetings: I have been at a community college and now at Oregon State University for a couple of years and both placements are very BIG on informing students that they have disability services available and urge students to take advantage of them in they need accommodations.  It has been in every syllabus for every class I have taken and the teachers states, this is YOUR responsibility to seek out these services, but they give you the resources of whom to contact.  Also, he will be assigned an advisor who should (and I say SHOULD with a wink as not all of them do), guide him through the process.  Like in anything in life there are good and bad advisors.  I agree with who made some excellent points, in college it is a different playing field.  You sink or swim on your own and it is up to the student to request help or even show up for class and do the work as no one cares if you don’t.  Colleges offer an array of services for their students.  This young man can probably go to their website and find out what resources they offer for students with disabilities and whom to contact to get the ball running. Just my 2 cents worth as usual… Best.