This site is designed as a virtual field trip in the areas of career and postsecondary education for students with learning disabilities (LD). Students with disabilities are just like every other young person. They have hopes, dreams, aspirations, strengths and areas of need just like everyone else. The only difference between a student with a learning disability and a general education student is that students with LD need to learn information differently. It's not as if they have to read a book upside down, or write in purple ink; they simple need a bit more time to complete some work; they may need to take tests in a place with minimal distractions, or use a word processor instead of physically writing out an assignment. Students with LD have average to above average intelligence and show a specific discrepancy (difference) in academic success between different courses or subjects.
Although some of the postings on this site pertain primarily to students with disabilities, everyone can learn from the information presented. For example did you know Albert Einstein was labeled mentally slow by his teachers! That is because he had a learning disability. Now, would you consider him slow, or "taking the short bus", or any of the other derogatory terms used for students who simply must learn differently.
Think about it.
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