What To Do While in High School
Advice From College Students with Disabilities
Virginia College Quest Website
Using interactive note-taking
Using flash cards
Treating a school day like a work day – work 8-5 or 8-6
Asking for help and set up a plan with Disability Services EARLY
Visiting the Disability Services office when you are trying to decide and visiting colleges (One student used resource time to research who to contact for Disability Services before he visited colleges)
Checking the ETS website early for information on accommodations for SAT / ACT testing – there is a brochure from ETS to help plan
Helping now for later
Learn how to structure your time
More accepting of disability and how to work with it
Disability awareness
Ex. Your reading disability might cause you to need to take 2-5x as long to read a passage – plan for that
Staying prepared – DON’T CRAM!