Yes, our company, The TLP group, is very interested in this population. 
   We are working with several community colleges to see if our process 
is effective in helping sort out what kind of support the developmental 
students need.  Robin

-----Original Message-----
From: Susan Jones <sujones at parkland.edu>
To: learningdisabilities at nifl.gov
Sent: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 22:20:51 -0600
Subject: Re: [LearningDisabilities] Doing something about 
it...(developmental ed)

.. one area ripe for "doing something" is getting knowledge out about 
people
with learning disabilities in developmental courses.  WHile in some 
places,
"developmental ed" is sort of a sentence served by faculty until they 
have the
seniority to teach "better" courses, there are legions of other 
teachers who
specialize in developmental education, and want to reach more students. 
 (Our
statistics, by the way, aren't particularly good.  The dropout rate is 
very high
for developmental students.)
     I'm really excited at the potential of some of the recent 
applications of
technology for providing scaffolds for LD students to get them over 
some of the
skills obstacles.


Susan Jones
Academic Development Specialist
Academic Development Center
Parkland College
Champaign, IL  61821
sujones at parkland.edu
Webmastress,
http://www.resourceroom.net
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