Atlantic Centre of Research, Access and Support for Students with Disabilities

Overview

Our students are smart, creative people who generally have struggled to get through educational systems. To address the outcome of these struggles The Atlantic Centre establishes individualized support service programs to facilitate the inclusion of students with disabilities. Students can take advantage of individualized planning sessions offered to all Atlantic Centre clients. These sessions form the basis of our support program and provide assistance to students to address the effects of disabilities on academic performance. 

Atlantic Centre counsellors work with students on gaining control over their life.  This involves learning and then successfully applying any number of self-determination skills, such as goal-setting, understanding  abilities and disabilities, problem-solving, and self-advocacy. The personal process of learning, using, and self-evaluating these skills in a variety of settings is at the heart of self-determination and is the foundation of counselling at the Atlantic Centre. Students with disabilities in an academic environment may need help with how to learn, how to stay focused, how to advocate for themselves and how to get the help they need while being self-directive.

Counsellors provide education and assistance to students with disabilities that foster independence.   This person-centred / person-directed approach respects the rights of students with disabilities to take charge of and responsibility for their lives.

Student planning support and services can include:

Assistive Technology Training

Classroom ASL/English Interpreting

Self-Advocacy Information & Training

Writing Skills Course

Tutor Database

Academic Coaches & Peer Mentors

FORMS

HELPFUL LINKS

Consent to Release Information

Counsellor Client Agreement

Tutor Database (SMUSA) 

The Writing Centre

Student Success