Rachel
Rachel is a junior at UNH with a passion for learning. Although she has always loved to learn, Rachel’s learning disability was always seen before her thirst for knowledge. Trying out different majors at UNH, Rachel is not sure what she will finally major in but she does know that her dream is to create educational change in our schools for students with disabilities.
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BEING A STUDENT IN SPECIAL EDUCATION
INTERNING IN A SPECIAL EDUCATION CLASSROOM
LEARNING TO LOVE TO WRITE
MAKING THE TRANSITION TO COLLEGE
ACCOMMODATIONS
STRATEGIES
CHOOSING A MAJOR
MAKING EDUCATION CHANGE
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STRATEGIES
As someone with a learning disability, I always will have to put more effort in than someone else. To check things over one more time, to do a bit more than what is expected from the professor is what will get me that good grade. I have never written a paper where I haven’t had someone look at it two or three times. When I read the papers, I read them the way they are suppose to be read. I don’t see the errors.
I really like the book, Learning Outside the Lines. It gave me a much needed perspective. As a successful person with learning disabilities and attention deficit disorder, Jonathan Mooney was a trustworthy voice. Reading it was a sigh of relief. He explains it is key for you to figure out the best way for YOU to learn. I have taken ideas from the book on how to set up your notes. There are different ways to do it but I do the one where you cut the page down in half and the main ideas go on one side and details on the other. I have highlighters and I have colored stickies. Everything gets hole punched into my notebook. I always find what I need when it comes to studying. My notebook is like a work of art!
Near the end of the semester, I was reading my Elements of Weather book and found a CD in the back of the book. There were pictures and dialogue about the concepts. Concepts that I just couldn’t get at the beginning of the year finally made sense. I just needed someone to speak it and then I understood it.