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    Special Services and Support

    connors family learning center

    The Connors Family Learning Center provides special services and support for all students with learning disabilities and all who teach and/or advise students with learning disabilities. For more information, call or email Kathy Duggan at 552-8093 or dugganka@bc.edu.

    Support and services for all students with learning disabilities

    • Orientation seminars for "Summer Transition Program" students
    • Individual screening sessions for students who may have learning disabilities
    • Individual consultations regarding reasonable individual accommodations
    • Access to special support services and accommodations, such as:
      • Letters to faculty confirming and explaining the individual's LD
      • "Underloading" during the academic year, combined with Summer School
      • Access to Textbooks on Tape
      • Use of the Kurzweil 3000 Personal Reader
      • Examinations proctored by the Center in a distraction-free room
    • Tutoring by peer and graduate tutors
    • Workshops on study skills and time management
    • Small-group seminars on learning strategies, led by a learning specialist


    Support and services for all BC faculty and teaching fellows who teach and/or advise students with learning disabilities

    • Confirmation that a student has a documented learning disability
    • Interpretation of medical/psychological diagnostic reports
    • Written profile of a student's LD and learning needs
    • Individual case consultation with a learning specialist
    • Workshops for departments/programs on teaching LD students
    • Center-proctored examinations to allow extra time and/or to provide a distraction-free environment

     

    › Admissions Information for Students with Learning Disabilities

    › Guidelines for Documentation of a Specific Learning Disability

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    Guidelines for Documentation of Attention Deficit Disorder

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    Testing Accomodation Procedures

    › Student Grievance Policy

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