Manju Banerjee

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Full-Tilt Parenting: Strategies, Insights, and Connection for Parents Raising Neurodivergent Children · TPP 155: Inside Landmark College's Unique Approach to Supporting Neurodivergent Students · 29 Apr 2019 podcast

And at landmark, uh, they find their niche, we like to say.

That's a great question, Debbie.

As you know, from many post-secondary institutions, the support for neurodivergent students is housed in what's called the Disability Services Office.

There are different names for Disability Services Office, like the Office of Accessible Education or Accessibility, and all sorts of different names.

But at the end of the day, these offices are guided by the Americans with disabilities.

Act and their primary focus is providing accommodation.

Now what I like to say is accommodations are retrofits and they come from a deficit mindset that is you're looking at the student, determining what the student can or cannot do, and then trying to fix it with in quotes through accommodations, compensatory strategies, modifications, and so on.

Where landmark holid is radically different from that is that we are grounded in the framework and mindset of universal design.

And what universal design posits is providing an environment that a learning environment that is inclusive of individual differences from the get-go.

And the focus shifts from deficits and accommodations to universally designed learning spaces and learning platforms.

Absolutely.

So uh

I'm going to answer that question, but I'm going to take a little detour.

I want to share a fact which is pretty astounding.

And this came out in the National Center for Learning Disabilities NCLD's State of LD report in 2017.

And what they reported is students who use support services and special education in high school.

Sixty-nine percent of them don't connect with the support office once they go to college.

There's a lot of reasons for that.

Uh, you know, some of it is the belief that I no longer have a learning challenge.

There are others uh who I just just feel that there's a lot of shame and stigma associated with this.

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