Disabilities

The needs of persons with differing abilities are as unique as the individual. Identifying, understanding, and accepting your disability is the first step to becoming an independant person. Meeting the needs of students at the post-secondary level represents a cross-section of special challenges. They include blind/low vision, deaf/hard of hearing, mobility impaired, learning disabled, or any other challenges a student may confront in obtaining their goal. The biggest challenge posed by a disability maybe breaking the social barrier: Knowing your own limitations and capabilities is the key for you to be able to set realistic goals. Many people are uncomfortable with a disabled person, so try to make them feel at ease; give them a chance to overcome those fears; fears which at sometime you as a disabled person might have had as well. As part of self-directed learning we encourage and support all of our students to be active and involved.