Learning and Learning Disabilities Website

By Gerry Lewin, Learning Disabilities Specialist

Santa Barbara City College's DSPS promotes student success, which means equal access to learning for all students, and we specialize in access for those with disabilities. We are also committed to supporting faculty and staff in working with students with disabilities.

Mi Virgen Maria Raul ValdezContents by Sections:

Information on Learning Disabilities and Attention Deficit Disorder (Referrals, Definition, Services, Teaching, ADHD)

Teaching and Learning Ideas

Class & Strategies (DSPS 77, Visions, Self-Advocacy)

Art Gallery

Learning Resources

Web Connections

People

Articles

Art Credit: Raul Valdez Guerra

Information on Learning Disabilities and Attention Deficit Disorder

1. What referral guidelines exist for screening the student for learning disabilities testing?

2. Where would a student attending SBCC go to find out about being tested for a learning disability?

3. How does the CA Community College system define a learning disability?

4. What is the range of possible DSPS services for a student with a learning disability?

5. Classroom Accommodations for the Student with a Learning Disability

6. What are a few ideas, models and methods for teaching students with learning disabilities? This is a network page with general teaching ideas as well as specific information on teaching students with learning disabilities. Universal design involves planning instruction in a way that makes learning possible for all learners. See also "Teaching and Learning Ideas" (below).

7. SBCC's Faculty Seminar
offers an online presentation for teachers, including Accommodating Students with Disabilities, by Dr. Janet Shapiro, Universal Design, by Laurie Vasquez, and Understanding Learning Disabilities. (Choose the topic from the left hand column.)

8. Research on Learning Disabilities

9. Attention Deficit Disorder Information for Teachers & for Students
Note: UCLA's Dr. Susan Smalley of the Neuropsychiatric Institute and PARC is conducting a research study on meditation and ADHD. Find out more about participating ...

Teaching and Learning Ideas

10. Principles and Methods for Adult Learners Updated for online presentation 8/05

11. Lesson Plan Considerations, an online printable form.

12. Cognitive Methods and their Relationship with Teaching and Learning Styles, from RCC's online professional development course for teachers, 4faculty; offers learning & teaching style inventories

13. Learning Styles Presentation; Table of Characteristics, Teaching Tips & Examples by Learning Style; Worksheet: "Designing a Lesson with Learning Styles in Mind"; Index of Learning Styles Online Questionnaire, by Soloman & Felder; Learning Styles and Strategies

14. SBCC's Teacher Hub, developed by Mark Ferrer, Faculty Resource Center Director

15. Archives for the Teacher's Question of the Week Series

Class & Strategies

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16. DSPS 77: Writing & Reading Strategies Class
Fall 2008 Syllabus
Writing Strategy
Rationale for DSPS 77 Strategies

17. Visions, our DSPS Student Publication

18. What can you do to get started writing? Here are a few methods for completing your writing assignments.

19. What is this sea of symbols all about? Here are a few ways to get more out of your reading assignments.

20. Practice: Quotes, Poetry, Passages, Plays and Pictures

Picture Credit: "Writing at Starbucks", by Yolanda Chasteen

21. What questions might a self-advocate be able to answer?

22. How to meet challenges in the classroom, job or at home? Worksheets are available for you to connect a course's expectations, your learning profile and challenges, with your choice of appropriate accommodations and strategies.

Learning Resources

23. SBCC's Student Hub Learning, study, research resources; access to syllabi and assignments

24. Archives for the Student's Question of the Week Series

25. Gyrus Learning Skills (a partial version; the urls are being renewed and will be posted as time permits).
Students: You may wish to use these with your content assignments to improve your academic performance. Teachers: You may wish to consider suggesting these to your students to assist them in mastering course content.

The Gyrus Learning Skills Index offers strands in Reading, Writing, Math, Study Skills and Critical Thinking.

26. Study Pyramidsailboat

27. Time Management Tools

28. Study Skills Resources

29. Cornell Notetaking Form, based on work originally by Walter Pauk of Cornell University; plus Concept Mapping and Notebook Organization

30. Tips for Students by Students

31. Goals: Sun Diagram and Destination X

32. Confusing Words, an online searchable data base

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People

33. Famous People with Disabilities, by M'Liss Garza

34. Blind Celebrities List (Tables), Text-based List, by Walter Wittich

35. Jack Horner, Paleontologist, with Steven Spielberg

36. Gerry Lewin's Background (author of this webpage)

Web Connections

37. Links 

Picture Credit: "Einstein", by Irene Rivetti

Articles

38. "Legal Rights for College Students with LD", Paul Grossman, OCR, and Charles Schwab

39. "Building Pedagogical Intelligence", Pat Hutchings, VP The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; adding to the model of multiple intelligences

40. Robert Brooks, Psychotherapist: Articles on Resilience, Motivation, Self-Esteem, and Relationships; online newsletter available

41. Sam Goldstein, Neuropsychiatrist: Articles, PPT presentation on "ADHD in Adults"

 

Contact Gerry Lewin. Your comments are welcome.

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