Date of Award
11-20-2015
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Rhetoric and Writing
First Advisor
Joanne Matson
Abstract
Colleges and universities are seeing an increase in students seeking accommodations for non-visible disabilities, like attention deficit disorder (ADD), attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and dyslexia. To better understand the expectations of learning disabled students, instructors of First Year Composition (FYC) courses as well as faculty and administrators are in need of information to help understand the problems affecting this population of students and the best way to teach them and know what to do. To better address this need, we designed a survey, distributed it to the learning disabled students on campus at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) and analyzed the results to look for patterns. The results show that faculty play the most important role in the collegiate success of LD students and are seen by many students as the most useful educational resource for accommodation.
Recommended Citation
Hedrick, Madison Leigh, "The Learning Disabled Student in College Composition" (2015). Theses and Dissertations. 650.
https://research.ualr.edu/etd/650
