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[quote=Anonymous]There are some good suggestions on here. Wherever your kid ends up, use the rest of senior year to reinforce study habits, organizational skills, and make a plan with him on how he will approach his professors and talk to them about how he will best succeed in class. FERPA and ADA prohibit professors from approaching the student to discuss disabilities and accommodations. Your student needs to know that it falls on them to approach the professor, discuss a plan, go to the tutoring/writing center, and seek out resources at college. My husband is a professor, and if a student doesn’t tell him they need accommodations he can’t suggest them. For example, he has a student in class now how is obviously dyslexic, their writing is at middle school level, but the kid is very smart and obviously knows the material based on class discussions. Bc of FERPA, my husband can’t ask this kid if they should be getting accommodations, and the kid hasn’t approached him about any type of disability. Even if you don’t have an official diagnosis or accommodations, let your child know that their professors are going to be willing to work with them and want them to be successful in their classes, and it will help a lot if your kid has a discussion with them at the beginning of the semester about their potential challenges in class. My husband offers extra time on tests and is flexible with deadlines when kids have been open and transparent with him, and they are doing their best to succeed in his classes. [/quote]

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