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Higher Education Support Toolkit: Assisting Students with Psychiatric Disabilities

Description

This is a guide used to help those with psychiatric disabilities work toward higher education.

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Additional Information

Creation Date:

2009

Type of Product:

• Toolkit
• Guide/how-to
• Infosheet

People Required:

Organization

Adaptation Needed:

Little to none needed

Rural Adaptations:

Does not appear to be limited to urban areas

Reading Time:

Does not take a long time to read the document

Cost:

No cost for this guide

Staff Needed:

• Counselor and students
• Counselors need to know what roadblocks students might encounter and how to mentor them

Supplies:

• This guide and included worksheets
• Accessibility supplies

Technology:

• To access this guide and additional resources
• Must print to fill it out

Alone/Group:

Collaboration with counselor and student

Recruitment/Attrition Risk:

Potentially having to tell a student that they will not have the accommodations they need in higher education

Plain Language Rating (Flesch-Kincaid):

Grade 15

Practical As-Is for Implementation:

Great