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As the nation's only fully accredited college designed exclusively for students with learning disabilities and AD/HD at the time, Landmark College received a grant from the U.S. Department of Education for training educators who work with these types of students. The three-year project, which began in December 1999, provided professional development to faculty, administrators, and counselors with the objective of ensuring that students with learning disabilities receive quality education at the postsecondary level.
In the first year of this project, a needs assessment concerning issues and topics relating to postsecondary students with learning disabilities was administered to representatives of the partner institutions. In this way, topics for professional development workshops were developed. Individual faculty and staff members from these partnering institutions attended professional development sessions around the state of Vermont. In the summer of 2001, they attended a three-day workshop on the Landmark College campus.
In the third year of the Title VII grant, Landmark College faculty members delivered workshops at colleges around the state. They provided the same theoretical knowledge and practical tools, concerning teaching and working with students with learning disabilities, to a wide network of faculty and administrators. A culminating conference was held on the Landmark College campus for representatives from the partner institutions in the summer of 2002.
All of these seminars and workshops, which included multimedia training modules and handbooks, were designed especially to assist postsecondary faculty, administrators, and counselors as they educate and support students with learning disabilities.
Workshop participants and recipients of materials have been provided with deep, practical insights into effective teaching practices and models of service delivery. Included in these workshops and seminars were Landmark College's "Introduction to Learning Disabilities" module, as well as additional modules and handbooks, that address the needs of students with learning disabilities. Information provided included the development of skills for academic learning, innovative approaches to composition instruction, and cutting-edge information and demonstrations of assistive technology for use at the postsecondary level. Modules and materials included information that addresses the academic and social-emotional issues impacting the performance of students with learning disabilities.
| Our Title VII partners in Vermont included: |
| Burlington College |
| Castleton State College |
| Champlain College |
| College of St. Joseph |
| Community College of Vermont |
| Green Mountain College |
| Johnson State College |
| Lyndon State College |
| Marlboro College |
| Middlebury College |
| New England Culinary Institute |
| Norwich University |
| Saint Michael's College |
| School for International Training |
| Southern Vermont College |
| Sterling College |
| University of Vermont |
| Vermont Technical College |
| Woodbury College |
| Vermont Higher Education Council (VHEC) |
| The Offices of the Vermont State Colleges |
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