COUNSELING: DISABLED STUDENT SERVICES

This course is designed for students who wish to gain greater self-awareness, become more sensitive to others, and improve their communication skills through group interaction.

In the context of word processing, students receive instruction in the assistive technology needed to provide computer access for completion of written academic assignments. Students must be concurrently enrolled in an academic class at Santa Monica College. (Also, Credit/Noncredit, open entry, self-paced.)

This course is designed for students with a disability who are transitioning into academic classes and are seeking guidance for tools that promote college readiness. Emphasis will be placed on skill acquisition for organization, goal setting, stress reduction and time management techniques. Students will gain perspective on their own learning styles, as well as how to create healthy habits and routines as they relate to both home and academic activities. Orientation to on and off campus support resources will be included.

This course is designed to teach specific learning strategies in the areas of test taking and memory. Students will learn to be more successful in taking various types of academic tests by applying specific strategies for test-taking, retaining and recalling information, answering test questions, and learning from mistakes.

This course is designed to teach specific learning strategies in the areas of textbook reading and memory. Students will learn to improve comprehension of textbooks by reading actively,creating a variety of study tools from textbooks, and applying techniques for remembering what has been read.

This course helps students develop strategies to improve phonetic and rule-based spelling. This course also helps students develop vocabulary through understanding of word morphology. This course is designed for students with learning disabilities.

The primary emphasis of this class is on time management and task analysis. Students are taught how to break academic assignments down into individual steps and how to schedule these and other tasks on daily, weekly, and monthly calendars. Goal setting, career choice, prioritizing, procrastination, and evaluation of study time and environment are part of this planning process. Also covered are organization of materials and information as well as memory. This class is designed for more mature, motivated students with learning disabilities, particularly attention deficit disorders.

This course incorporates the use of computers and software to implement and support the step-by-step stages of writing strategies. This course is designed for students with learning disabilities.

This course is designed to improve a student's ability to actively listen, take lecture notes, and to employ memory strategies. The class is specifically for students with learning disabilities. Assistive technology for note taking is also explored.

Students learn to apply technology-based study strategies to enhance comprehension and retention of instructional materials. Students will apply the strategies with consideration for their learning styles and the types of materials they are reading. Comprehension strategies such as patterns of organization and skimming techniques are also covered. This course is designed for students with learning disabilities.