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College, Disabilities, and Success
Are you afraid your child with a disability will struggle and fail at college? You can stop the struggle! Knowledge is power!! Welcome to College, Disabilities, and Success! Get my insider's look at how disability services work on college campuses. As a former college Learning Disability Specialist, Disability Services Coordinator, and LD high school teacher, I can help you! Do you understand the power of Disability Services at college? Do you understand how your child's privacy changes at 18 or the differences between the K-12 IDEA law and college ADA law? Can you step in at college to help your child? How will your child get accommodations or handle problems with accommodations? What kind of documentation does your child need at college? Will colleges take an IEP and is it enough? What are your child's study skills goals and study skills for test taking? What kind of relationship should your child have with the college professors? You'll find those answers and lots more here at the College, Disabilities, and Success podcast!
College, Disabilities, and Success
#83 Hurricane Replay: Improving Executive Function
PREPPING FOR A HURRICANE, so today I am replaying Episode 39: Improving Executive Function! Thanks for your understanding! Mickie
How good are your child's executive functioning skills? Is your child able to regulate his or her impulses, handle stressful situations, plan, organize, and follow through with assignments? Today's episode breaks down executive function into the three main areas of working memory, inhibitory control, and mental flexibility suggested by Dr. C. Cybele Raven (Video below). You will get suggestions and resources from Mickie Teaches to help you help your child strengthen the necessary executive functioning skills that lead to college success.
Free Executive Function Tips Handout
"Executive Function and Self-Regulation" - Center of the Developing Child, Harvard University
In Brief: Executive Function Skills for Life and Learning Video with C. Cybele Raven, Ph.D
SEDNET The Multiagency Network for Students with Emotional/Behavioral Disabilities
College, Disabilities, and Success Podcast Episode 34, When Students Struggle, Metacognition Helps
College, Disabilities, and Success Podcast Episode 8, How Memory Works