University Daily Kansan / Thursday, February 8, 1990
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Disabled find support in group
By Carol B. Shiney
Kansan staff writer
Andrew Rymill said his professors treated him differently when they found out he had a learning disability.
Rymil, Spring Hill senior, believes that a new support group for learning disabled students will help educate the public about learning disabilities.
The Learning Disability Support Group will have its first meeting at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Centennial Room of the Kansas Union.
The group was patterned after a similar program at Johnson County Community College. The group's goal is to advocate the independence of learning disabled students.
The Student Assistance Center provides basic classroom accommodations for learning disabled students.
Laura Smedley, assistant director of the center, said the center
'This is a hard system to work within. That's what we want to change.'
Garry Jones Vice president of the Learning Disability Support Group
provided services such as volunteer note takers, books on tape and extended time for exams or writing assignments. She said the teacher would write letters to faculty notifying of a student's disability.
"It really depends on the student's strengths and weaknesses and that access the course is taught to them, and that a student would need," she said.
Garry Jones, Lawrence junior
and vice president of the group,
said that many days he got angry
because of problems related to his
learning disability.
"Through the group, we hope to be able to uplift one another and help each other through those times," he said.
Smedley, who is also the faculty representative for the group, said the 209 students the assistance server served had learning disabilities.
"That number certainly does not reflect the number of students at KU with learning disabilities," she said.
Students are not required to identify themselves as having a disability, Smedley said.
She said people with learning disabilities were often thought of as people who see letters and numbers reversed, a disability called dyslexia.
"That is only one form of a learning disability," Smedley
said.
She said a person with a learning disability had average or above average intellectual ability but had a disorder with one or more neuropsychological processes. He should include listening, thinking, speaking, reading, writing, spelling or the ability to do math.
She said the office gave students intelligence tests to determine their ability and then looked for a discrepancy between that ability and their achievements to determine whether the students had learning disabilities.
She estimated that about 3 percent of people in the United States had learning disabilities.
Jones said that one thing that was important for learning disabled students at the university level to realize was that if a student not a C in a class but did the best he could, then that was OK.
Native Americans keep cultural bond
By Mark McHugh
Kansan staff writer
A student organization for Native Americans will have its first meeting Feb. 15, an organizer for the group said.
Sharon Yatlin, Bettles, Alaska, junior, said the organization would try to bolster Native American youth in the Kansas and foster social interaction.
Yatlin said that one complaint of Native American students at KU was a dearth of Native Americans on campus.
About 200 Native American students attended KU in Fall 1989, said Kathryn Kretschmer, associate director of admissions. Five of those students transferred from Haskell, she said.
Marshall Jackson, interim director of the Office of Minority Affairs, said the new group wanted to boost recruitment of Haskell students at
KU. He said the group was not sponsored by the Office of Minority Affairs.
"It's like any other student group." Jackson said. "Like BSU and HALO, they come to our office for advice and assistance.
"They want to join together to form a support network and to promote share the Native American culture and heritage with the University."
Rita Napa, associate professor of history, will be the faculty adviser for
Napier said the organizers planned to use the organization to increase the success rate of Native American students on campus. She said that many Native Americans come to KU from rural communities and that attending KU was like coming to an anonymous society. Adjusting and staying in school at KU are difficult, she said.
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