Colleges seek to help students with learning disabilities
Endowed with a new freshman’s hunger for independence, Alix Generous thought she could conquer college without seeking help for the learning disabilities she’d dealt with since she was 11. She was wrong. In her first year at the College of Charleston, Generous decided against using the school’s assistance programs for students with dyslexia and other disorders, even though she’d relied on such help throughout her childhood. “I was like, ‘Now I’m 18 and can do what I want,’ ” she said. “I definitely had that attitude. But a lot of it also was ignorance.”…Read More
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