As a Learning Disability Specialist I assist students who have disabilities with perceiving, organizing, retrieving or expressing information. I joined Disabled Students Programs and Services in 1999 and am certified by the California Community College Chancellor’s Office to conduct learning disability assessments and determine eligibility for services.
People with learning disabilities often find that they can learn some types of information quite well, but have severe difficulty learning other types of information. The purpose of learning disability assessment is to measure many kinds of abilities and knowledge and evaluate which ones are strong, and which ones are not. When sharing the assessment results with students I believe that it is very important to review the student’s strengths and discuss strategies for using them in order to succeed. If there are areas of weakness then I can discuss methods of strengthening those areas, and how to access services that can help.