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 Forum: School and College Life   Topic: To disclose or not to disclose? Problems with lab work

Piedmont
 Post subject: Disclosure
Posted: 25 Apr 2012, 1:01 pm 

Replies: 8
Views: 2,202
Hi, I'm not familiar with how things are done in Australia, but I know a bit how things are done in the US. Here, professors who are regular staff are far more likely to follow any disability accommodations and not give you a hassle. Adjuncts, however, can be a pain. Adjuncts are rarely given any gu...

 Forum: General Autism Discussion   Topic: Official International Wrong Planet Conference / Festival

Piedmont
 Post subject: Conference
Posted: 25 Apr 2012, 12:46 pm 

Replies: 449
Views: 172,477
Big conferences: 1.) I think these things have to be planned at least a year in advance. Sometimes 14-18 months. 2.) Has anyone thought of starting small?--Comicon started small, was a malleable thing able to change to serve its constituents and eventually grew into a massive cultural event. For ins...

 Forum: School and College Life   Topic: UCD disability help

Piedmont
 Post subject: Wish I knew
Posted: 27 Mar 2012, 3:32 pm 

Replies: 8
Views: 1,430
I wish there were a forum for college students and folk in grad school so we could all compare how well various institutions do with accommodations.

 Forum: School and College Life   Topic: Disability Coordinator issues

Piedmont
 Post subject: Disability Coordinator
Posted: 27 Mar 2012, 3:24 pm 

Replies: 6
Views: 1,206
Hi, I'm sorry you're having this problem. And I wish I had better news/advice. Colleges accommodate students as much as they wish--on paper, the ADA is a fine law, but in reality, students don't really have much power if their college says 'no.' And colleges and individual teachers often say no. Usu...

 Forum: School and College Life   Topic: how to stay within the word limit in in class essays

Piedmont
 Post subject: Word count and essays
Posted: 27 Mar 2012, 1:21 pm 

Replies: 8
Views: 1,522
I teach college, and something I see is that students who write too much sometimes pack too many ideas into each paragraph. Non-NTs seem to do this more than NTs, but NTs do it too, particularly if they're engineers. A paragraph really should have only one topic. So once you know what a particular p...
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