100 Things Every College Student with a Disability Ought to Know

January 21, 2011

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When a person with disabilities decides college is in their future, there's more

than the usual angst over leaving home. How will you manage all the extra paper

work you need to fill out for special help? How can you find accessible

classrooms? Will they give you the assistive technology you need for class?

100 Things Every College Student with a Disability Ought to Know answers all

these questions and many more. Written from a student perspective, you'll find

the short paragraphs full of simple tips and advice on how to negotiate the

college experience.

Input from Real Students with Disabilities

Hundreds of suggestions from real college students with disabilities were

distilled down to create this concise, current guide. Your typical fears and

anxieties will be calmed with information in chapters that cover arriving,

paperwork, leveling the playing field, the classroom experience, campus life,

success strategies and the transition out of college.

Valuable web links are included for independent research in broad range of

related topics, giving students a robust supply of deep knowledge for trouble

shooting. In fact, after using the guide and managing your own higher education

experience, you'll find yourself in a position to be giving other students with

disabilities advice.

Small but Powerful Disability Guide

This convenient, pocket-size resource is one you can stick in your backpack for

easy reference. And with all the relevant information it contains, you'll want

to keep it close at hand. Use it for a wide variety of problem solving. Pretty

much anything you can think of to answer the who, what, why, where and when of

the college disability experience is contained in its pages.

The guide is a valuable tool for high schoolers with disabilities who have

decided that they want to continue on to higher education, as well as for

beginning college students, both teens and adults. In fact, there are different

editions for freshmen, adults, international and online students. And it is

available in alternative format upon request.

100 Things Every College Student With a Disability Ought to Know would make a

great tool for orientation programs, college freshman seminars, or as a gift to

a college student with a disability.

100 Things Every College Student With a Disability Ought to Know by Kendra D.

, Ed. D. and Trudie N. Hines. Cambridge Stratford, paperback, 230 pp.

ISBN 0935-637-32-x

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