Academics

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Academics, Study Tips, and Strategies 

• Talking about your disability with classmates, faculty, other students, and employers
  
  
• Tips for transfer students and how to transfer credits (from BestColleges.com, a commercial site. You are not obligated to sign up with them).
  
  
• Think you might want to try hiring an academic coach?  How tutors and coaches are different.  Look for certification from the International Coach Federation (ICF) or the National Tutoring Association (NTA)
  
  
• Study and organizational tips and apps 
  
  
• Choosing a major and career
  
  
• Students may want to check out our website's information for faculty to find tips they can use for their own learning
  
  
• Modules about academic accommodations and strategies from the Access Project at Colorado State University, with suggestions for students with a variety of disability types
  
  
• ​Learn about disability and Deaf studies​​

Working with Faculty

• What's my role?  What are the professors and disability services supposed to be doing for me?
  
  
• Choosing whether or not to use disability services, or whether to work on your own with professors
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• Talking with faculty about your disability 
  
  
• Universal design 101 - what should students and faculty know about it?
  
  
• I'm not getting good accommodations or services.  What can I do?