Current Students

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 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 process of learning, using, and self-evaluating these skills in a variety of settings is at the heart of self-determination. 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.

Student planning support and services can include:

• support for students with disabilities in establishing an individualized plan/approach that supports academic success and independence.
• help developing Individualized Accommodation Plan
• support students in planning class accommodations with professors, such as exam accommodation
• financial aid information and referral
• training & access to assistive technologies
• academic assistance
• education about campus and community resources
• group or individual skill development sessions
• liaison with sponsorship organizations
• peer facilitation ( helping students connect with mentors, academic coaches and tutors)
• make necessary referrals to appropriate university or community resources.

Resources

• Test & Exam Accommodation
• Learning Strategy Training
• Assistive Technology Training
• Classroom ASL/English Interpreting
• Self-Advocacy Information & Training
• Tutor Database
• Academic Coaches & Peer Mentors

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