Event Type: Online Courses
Event Date: Now available in the LINCS Learning Portal!
New online courses are available through the LINCS Learning Portal! The Learning to Achieve suite of resources teaches practitioners to accommodate learning disabilities and help adults achieve academically and in the workplace.
These new courses include:
- Learning to Achieve: Definitions of Learning Disabilities - In this self-paced course, participants learn about a consensus definition of learning disabilities and its application and identifies some behaviors that indicate an individual may have a learning disability. It also explains how controversy and debate may affect adult service providers.
- Learning to Achieve: Self Determination for Adults with Learning Disabilities – In this self-paced course, participants learn about the importance of self-determination and self-advocacy for a person with learning disabilities, and describes six factors that affect an individual's ability to be self-determined. It also identifies how professionals working with adults with learning disabilities can support those adults in developing self-determination to achieve their goals.
- Learning to Achieve: Legal Issues, Self-Disclosure, and Confidentiality – In this self-paced course, participants learn about the legal, self-disclosure, and confidentiality issues that are relevant to service providers working with adults with learning disabilities. It also discusses the possible implications for service delivery when a student discloses a learning disability.
- Learning to Achieve: Workforce Preparation Strategies – In this self-paced course, participants learn about strategies for helping adults with learning disabilities develop skills to enhance their workforce readiness and success; identifies employment-related resources available to adults with LD in your community; and explores strategies to address possible barriers to access for those adults.
Take time to explore the new courses!
Many thanks,
The LINCS Community Team