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[LearningDisabilities] Educational resources for someone interested in a profession working with

cecilia at languageschoolusa.org cecilia at languageschoolusa.org
Tue Jan 24 10:23:48 EST 2006


Hello all,

Landmark College in VT focuses on adults with learning disabilities and ADHD.
landmark.edu

Cecilia Candia
DOE Program Coordinator
International Language Institute
25 New South St.
Northampton, MA 01060


Quoting robinschwarz1 at aol.com:


> Can anyone name a college, university or other program that focuses

> special ed or psychology or learning disabilities on adult learners? If

> we have learned ANYTHING in the last few years in adult education, it

> is that the models from K-12 do not work.

> Adult learners are likely to have MANY causes for poor learning

> including learning disabilities, or maybe NOT including LD. Adult

> educators working with struggling learners really need to have a very

> broad perspective on barriers to learning. I , who work actively in

> the field helping adult educators with these issues, have never heard

> of a training program in a college or university that addresses that

> wide range of learning barriers in adult learners. I would be happy

> to know of one. Robin Schwarz

>





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