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Senior Checklist

Alright, Seniors!  Are you ready for college?  Read through the following questions and brush up on the information that you are less familiar with.  If you know the answers to all of the questions, then you are well on your way towards a successful college experience.  Good luck! 
 

You know you are ready for college when you:

  1. Know how you learn best
  2. Know, disclose, document disability
  3. Take college placement tests
  4. Know about college disability services
  5. Organize yourself for college
  6. Know your rights and responsibilities
  7. Understand academic adjustments
  8. Use technology to support learning
  9. Develop a disability support plan
  10. Manage your learning supports
  1. Can you talk about the ways that you learn best? Your skills, your preferred learning environment, what motivates you?
    (hint: Post-Secondary Support Services)
  2. Do you know the name of your disability and how it functionally limits your learning in school?
    Are you familiar with the requirement to disclose your disability as a way of receiving academic supports in college?
    Have you decided whether or not you will disclose your disability?
    Do you know if your disability documentation meets the requirements of your college?
    (hint: Legal Rights and Responsibilities)
  3. Have you prepared for and taken the placement tests required by your college?
    Have you applied for reasonable accommodations for the tests to ensure an accurate test taking experience?
    (hint: Workbook Appendix)
  4. Do you know about what a college Office of Disability Services does and does not do?
  5. Have you developed the time management, storage, and general organizational habits that will be required for success in college?
  6. Do you know how your legal rights and responsibilities change as you move from high school to college?
    Do you understand how that change should change your expectations for support services?
    (hint: Legal Rights and Responsibilities)
  7. Can you give examples of academic adjustments that might be helpful to you in college and that are supported by the documentation of your disability?
    (hint: Post-Secondary Support Services)
  8. Have you considered how assistive technologies might be used to help you learn in college?
    Have you tried these out in high school?
    Are you good at using them?
    (hint: http://www.postitt.org/activities/index02.shtml)
  9. Are you comfortable with the idea of discussing academic adjustments with a Disability Services Coordinator at your future college?
    Do you know how you will approach the office, what you might ask, what you should bring, and what you might expect?
    (hint: Choosing the Right College)
  10. Do you understand your responsibilities for managing your learning supports in college?