At Gurnick Academy we understand and agree with the notion that student learning disability or learning disorder / difficulty is a situation where a student has difficulty learning using a typical approach. The causes vary, however usually the causing factor is the disorder that affects the brain's ability to receive and process information. In other words learning disabilities are neurologically-based conditions that get in the way of proper attainment, management and use of skills and knowledge.
Every effort is put forth to ensure that students, faculty and staff with disabilities at Gurnick Academy of Medical Arts receive the services and accommodations to which they are entitled.
We also think that the learning disorder can make it problematic for a person to learn as quickly or in the same way as someone who is not affected by a learning disability. People with a learning disability have trouble performing specific types of skills or completing tasks if left to figure things out by themselves or if taught in conventional ways.
The diagnosis of a learning disability in an adult requires documentation of at least average intellectual functioning along with deficits in such areas as:
- Auditory processing
- Visual processing
- Information processing speed
- Abstract reasoning
- Memory (long-term, short-term, visual, auditory)
- Spoken and written language skills
- Reading skills
- Mathematical skills
- Visual spatial skills
- Motor skills
- Executive functioning (planning)
Gurnick Academy believes that a learning disability is not a temporary disorder. This type of disorder is affecting how students with normal or above-average intelligence process incoming information, outgoing information, or both.
Learning disabilities are often inconsistent. They may be manifested in only one specific academic area, such as math or foreign language. There might be problems in grade school, none in high school, and then back again in higher educational institution.
Learning disabilities are not the same as mental retardation or emotional disorders. Common accommodations for students with learning disabilities are alternative print formats, taped lectures, note takers, adaptive technology, course substitutions, early syllabus, exam modifications, priority registration, and study skills and strategies training.
Please click on the link below for a copy of the Test Accomodation Form, instructions, and Instructor FAQs:
http://www.gurnick.edu/forms/ |