Student Self-Assessment
Basic Information & Skills Checklist
If there were questions in the lists that the student could not answer, the student needs to talk about his choices of college or vocation with a sponsoring agency, guidance counselor, resource room teacher or other professional who knows him. The answers to these questions will help him begin to seriously consider whether or not college is a realistic option.
Picture this: A student and her parents are meeting for the first time with the Disability Services representative at a college that she is considering. Things have been going well so far because the questions have been about her and her strengths and weaknesses. She has spent time on the Student Self-Assessment and could answer most of the questions. Then the crisis occurs. “What kind of accommodations will you need at the college?” asks the college person. She looks at her parents and doesn’t know what to say.
This is a frequent scene at that first meeting. Very few incoming students know what kind of accommodations they might need. The following questions will help students decide how they learn information. Students know how they learn best; unfortunately, not all college classes will be taught in the manner that they prefer. Students will have to develop strategies to learn information presented in a variety of formats. The charts will help the student identify strategies he can use to improve his ability to organize, store and retrieve information.