Training Faculty to Accomodate LD/ADD Students 

National Council for Staff, Program and Organizational Development

Training Faculty to Accommodate LD/ADD Students

Les Rosenbloom, Corning Community College, NY

Corning Community College has a model for training faculty and staff to meet the needs of students with learning differences. The Office of Students with Disabilities successfully coordinates and cooperates with the Faculty Development Office to expose classroom faculty to some relatively easy reasonable accommodations for students with these special needs. What follows is the agenda for that training.

Throw out what you think you know about learning:
 

Try This On

• Read a page as one with Dyslexia.
• Try to draw this figure as one with a visual processing problem.
• Answer this question as one with an oral expression problem.

Heterogeneity In The Classroom

The community college mission as it relates to learning differences, abilities, and

preparation.

LD/ADD Specifically

How it affects classroom behavior

How to detect it

Reasonable Accommodations

• How we succeed at Corning Community College: Our approach to 504
• Get the barriers out of the way on a case-by-case method.
• Previously identified student with a learning disability (with documentation) or the result sof faculty recognition or student inquiry
• Request for academic accommodation
• Request for testing accommodation
• Available brochures, newsletters and faculty information guides
• How Difficult Can This Be? The F.A.T. CITY WORKSHOP