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HuskiesHowls

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6. My daughter has been dealing with accommodations for several years
Wed Aug 28, 2013, 11:49 PM
Aug 2013

One of the things that they did for her was to allow her to take tests outside the classroom, under supervision. The stress of the classroom environment would get to her, and make it nearly impossible for her to think. Away from that stressor, she did quite well.

Another thing that helped her was to have a counselor that knew her conditions and had some background in mental health issues and could act as a go-between for her, talking to instructors and working out plans to help her succeed. The best counselors that she had would talk to her therapist, and find the best way to help her.

One semester when she was hospitalized, the instructor brought the course work to her in the psych ward. The instructor said later that it was quite educational to find out what it was like in there, how disorienting it could be. She had a new-found respect for mental health patients that are in college, after that.

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