Im speacial ed will they let me in collage?

Question

i have free collage since im adopted but im speacial ed will they accept me when i try to go to collage. in collage i there speacial turtors

Answer 1

yeah dude i am in it too

they will if u work

Answer 2

yes absolutely!!

i have been through college and am in university right now,

they have centeres for students with disabilities. so when you apply go to the school (if possible) or call if you cant and talk to them about it ask them what services they provide (for example note takers if you are unable to take notes). each school is different but absolutely dont give up because of it and all the power to you!! :)

Answer 3

Community colleges are usually more flexible and less academically demanding.  If you are graduating with a regular high school diploma, you can be considered for admission for other colleges.  

In college, you will not have an IEP.   Some colleges provide tutors to ALL students on occassion.  I've never heard of tutors for students for special needs, however, ask the college you are wanting to attend.  

Once you are accepted to college, YOU contact the office for disability services.  They will ask you to bring in your completed testing information.  (The tests are usually required to be from your high school years. )  YOU will sit down with a disability services counselor to set up your accommodations.  In college they are not required to do all that high school did for you.  Usually, you only get seating at the front of the room and extra time on tests.  If you have problems writing because of hand-eye coordination problems,  then they might have another student take notes for you.  That's about it.

Answer 4

Students are admitted to college based on their transcripts. If your high school classes covered the subjects needed for college, and you have great grades, then you may be accepted. However, even community colleges give entrance exams to determine your abilities and to see if you are ready for college level classes. If not, they would recommend remediation classes.

Colleges do not have to give you special accommodations like K-12 public schools. The American with Disabilities Act covers this under section 504. You sometimes have to prove you have a disability using the paperwork from high school. You might get extended time on tests or extensions on longer research papers, but not much more than that.

Some community colleges have compensatory education classes just for special ed students. You would not need to take a test for these classes. These classes are free in my town. It might be a good idea to see if your local community college offers a program like this.

Answer 5

Colleges are not legally obligated to accept every person with every disability who wants to attend--and graduate with a college degree.

They accept and retain only those people with disabilities capable of being reasonably accomodated.

Reasonable accomodation is only modifying the physical plant of a campus or giving extra time on an exam. It does NOT modify the course content ('special courses') or degree plan requirements.

There are no 'special courses' for people with disabilities in college. We take the same course/degree plans as our peers without disabilities.  

If you believe you would need tutors for those courses, one posibility could be striking up friendships with people in those classes and then studying together. It's also a good way to make friends.

People with disabilities would not have special tutors because of our disabilities--were formal tutors available, they would be advertising their services around the entire campus population, including to students without disabilities. But that option can cost money.  

And to recieve any disability accomodations (another free option), we must proactively register with the office of disability services---providing medical doccumentation that we have a specific and verifiable disability.

These types of campus offices (unlike public school) do not identify which students would/will need its services, regardless of staff size and/or college/university campus size. You need to be comfortable being 'out' as a person with a disability before applying to college. You are required to constantly approach the campus disability office for services each semester you need services.  

Legally, your parents/guardians cannot work with this office and it will not contact them about your progress...etc. It will only communicate with you.

This is because college is supposedly about people being adults. And the communication does not have IEPs or other yearly conferences like had occured in public school.

What would happen is a mini-meeting at the begining of each semester where you give over your class schedule. professors.

You explain what courses you are taking and if they are physically accessibile (where relevant) and you and the office determine what reasonable accomodations you are elgible for.

You then have each affected instructor/professor sign off on the accomodations letter and bring it back to the office within a week of the signings to verify that you will be reasonably accomodated for the semester that you are enrolled in their specific class.

And you could talk with this office if you were not recieving the accomodations which had been signed off on by your instructors. They had signed a binding contract to provide you with specific accomodations for specific courses.

Answer 6

In California the Community College system will accept you and anyone who wants to go to college. They have special services to help students with disabilities of all types, and classes to help you reach the college level classes. Beyond that you will have to meet the requirements of the classes you are taking. Depending on your special needs you may or may not be able to graduate from college. You might want to work with your parents and your school counselors to help you decide on a career that fits you, which may or may not include college.

Answer 7

If you attend a public college, by law they are required to help students with disabilities. This can include community colleges if the college is a public institution and they are required by law to assist you since they are funded by the government.

If you attend a private school, the school if funded through tuition and the school does not have to assist students with learning disabilities.

The best colleges to attend is a NCAA Division II public institution if you attend a Four Year institution because the college is more concerned about your academic success and succeeding in the classroom and the real world. NCAA Division I schools are usually big and overcrowded with a student population over 40,000 students. A NCAA Division III and a NAIA school is usually a private college and they might not assist you with your learning disability.

Answer 8

In my time if you had a learning disability you were

told do not go to college,even a community college was out for me.This was 30 years ago.

So do not let my answer discourage you.

Answer 9

They will except you. Certain schools have specific special ed programs. If you are worried you might want to look into those programs.

Answer 10

possibly-

will you have astandard diploma or a modified standard diploma-you may qualify if you meet other requiremenrts (grades, SATs)

if you only get a certificate of completion-colleges probably won't accept you-even though it is disability discrimination