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.
"Yellowstone,"
by Martha Day
To find out about her artwork, please contact her at mdayroses@gmail.com.
Permission must be obtained to use her copyrighted images.
Contents by Sections:
Class & Strategies (DSPS 77, Visions, Self-Advocacy)
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.
Research on Learning Disabilities
8. Attention Deficit Disorder Information for Teachers & for Students
9. Principles and Methods for Adult Learners Updated for online presentation 8/05
10. Lesson Plan Considerations, an online printable form.
11. 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
12. 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
13. Teaching and Learning weblinks
14. Archives with Information about Teaching and Learning
15. DSPS 77: Writing & Reading Strategies Class
Syllabus
Writing
Strategy
Rationale for DSPS 77 Strategies
17. What can you do to get started writing? Here are a few methods for completing your writing assignments.
18. What is this sea of symbols all about? Here are a few ways to get more out of your reading assignments.
19. Practice: Quotes, Poetry, Passages, Plays and Pictures
Picture Credit: "Writing at Starbucks", by Yolanda Chasteen
20. What questions might a self-advocate be able to answer?
21. 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.
22. SBCC's Student Hub Learning, study, research resources; access to syllabi and assignments
23. Archives for Students' Q & A
24.
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.
28. Cornell Notetaking Form, based on work originally by Walter Pauk of Cornell University; plus Concept Mapping and Notebook Organization
29. Memory
30. Tips for Students by Students
31. Goals: Sun Diagram and Destination X
32. Confusing Words, an online searchable data base
33. Famous People with Disabilities, by M'Liss Garza
34. Carol Greider, the 2009 Nobel laureate in medicine who has dyslexia, graduated from UCSB's the College of Creative Studies in 1983. Watch a video about her Nobel Prize in Medicine.
35. Stephen Cannell, is a screenwriter and author who has dyslexia. View his video on dyslexia.
36. Victor Villaseñor, author and speaker with dyslexia. View his video about his life, dyslexia and ethnic roots.
37. Diane Swonk, is an economist who has dyslexia. You may see her on the national news giving financial predictions, summaries and advice at times. Read an interview, "Passionate Economist Finds Strength and Humanity in Her Dyslexia" by Linda Broatch, MA & Diane Swonk, MAE
38. Jack Horner, Paleontologist, with Steven Spielberg
Picture Credit: "Einstein", by Irene Rivetti
39. Blind Celebrities List (Tables), Text-based List, by Walter Wittich
40. Gerry Lewin's Background (author of this webpage)
41.
Links
Articles
and Resources
43. The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
44. Robert Brooks, Psychotherapist: Articles on Resilience, Motivation, Self-Esteem, and Relationships; online newsletter available
45. Sang Mook-Li, NOVA Story of So. Korean Geo-Physicist Defying Stereotypes of Disabled
46. 'Dyslexia Defined: New Yale Study "Uncouples" Reading and IQ Over Time', Yale University
47. "Overcoming Dyslexia" by Betsy Morris, Lisa Munoz, and Patrica Neering, Fortune, CNN
Contact Gerry Lewin. Your comments are welcome.
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