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Developing Self-Advocacy: The Experience of College Students in Structured Learning Disabilities Programs.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Developing Self-Advocacy: The Experience of College Students in Structured Learning Disabilities Programs./
Author:	Miller, Rachel Nottingham.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2010,
Description:	167 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 72-08, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International72-08A.
Subject:	Special education. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3436032
ISBN:	9781124347158

Developing Self-Advocacy: The Experience of College Students in Structured Learning Disabilities Programs.
Miller, Rachel Nottingham.

Developing Self-Advocacy: The Experience of College Students in Structured Learning Disabilities Programs. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2010 - 167 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 72-08, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Virginia, 2010.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

The number of students with disabilities arriving on college and university campuses is increasing. Of those students reporting a disability, over half of them state they have a learning disability. Unlike high school, the burden is on the student in college to demonstrate the need for services and communicate this need to the institution in a timely manner. It is therefore essential that students possess adequate self-advocacy skills to receive the services they need to be successful. This study describes three U.S. institutions' structured learning disabilities programs. The theoretical framework was based on Chickering and Reisser's (1993) third vector of college student development which notes the importance of moving from a state of dependence through a position of autonomy to a state of interdependence; and Aune's Interactional Model of Disability which focuses on the importance of the context in which the individual lives and works. Students' academic experience is grounded in the environment of the learning disabilities program and the broader campus climate of the university. Interviews with students and university personnel confirmed that students in these programs do exhibit a sense of self-advocacy. Conversations with faculty, the original focus of this study, were considered a less important factor in students' development of communication skill than conversations with tutors. Self-efficacy and motivation emerged as essential foundational components of self-advocacy. However, students' development of interdependence did not occur in the way outlined by Chickering and Reisser's third vector. At all three institutions discussed, the atmosphere was one of acceptance and support rising from a long history of disability services, reflecting the importance of Aune's Interactional Model of Disability. One of the most salient findings of this study is the construction of the Circle of Support by the learning disabilities program and other university personnel. This was found to be one of the most critical aspects of the programs' success and, coupled with the self-advocacy skills fostered by the communication skills developed in conversations with tutors, it helped to create an environment in which students with learning disabilities have the ability to thrive.

ISBN: 9781124347158Subjects--Topical Terms:

516693
Special education.

Developing Self-Advocacy: The Experience of College Students in Structured Learning Disabilities Programs.
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