It's easy for a student who learns differently to become overwhelmed by the demands of college course work. Warning signs often include:

• Poor grades
• Can’t keep pace with reading assignments
• Submits papers past deadlines
• Unable to manage or organize course work
• Trouble retaining recently learned information.

Landmark College is America’s premier college for students with learning disabilities and AD/HD. Our Bridge Semester provides short-term, intensive support to college students who are struggling in their studies. Participants receive the tailored skills instruction they need to successfully return to their home college or university.

Featuring two Curriculums:

• Executive Function Curriculum
• Academic Skills Development Curriculum

Executive Function Strategies Curriculum

For Students with Learning Difficulties in Work Completion, Organization and Time Management

Some students with diagnoses such as AD/HD don’t have any trouble with reading or fluency; they read and write quite well in certain contexts Instead, they are challenged by issues with focus, distractibility, and disorganization related to time and materials. Often when these students are interested in the material, they are capable of working at a very high level. Students with this profile who have been to another college and passed specific classes will be eligible to take EN1050.

This Curriculum will help students:

• Better understand their learning style;
• Become more productive, particularly in writing;
• Develop their self-advocacy skills and learn how to make better use of campus resources;
• Become more skilled in juggling demanding college courses; and
• Return to their college with new skill sets and enhanced self-understanding.

Students in the Executive Function Strategies Curriculum Will:

• Enroll in a one-credit seminar in which students collaborate on identifying and using resources for time management, organization and work completion. Students meet one-on-one with the instructor and in small groups at least once a week. The course is an orientation to college resources, but also covers development theory and psycho educational theories of motivation. This course will be graded on a pass fail basis.

• Enroll in EN105: Critical Process and Writing Theory. This course introduces writing theory and AD/HD educational theory. Focus is on managing written output and the relationship between the way we manage writing demands and how we learn.

• Build their transcripts and explore academic interests through college-level courses that incorporate academic skills as well as content, taught by Landmark’s trained and experienced faculty.

Student Profile:

• An official diagnosis of AD/HD or executive functioning disorder;
• Previous college experience at an accredited institution;
• Passed (C- or better) a college composition course (EN101 or equivalent);
• High academic potential, demonstrated through 1100 combined SAT scores or
• Current Psycho-Education Testing including WAIS or Woodcock-Johnson; and
• Difficulties with work completion, writing production or handling multiple academic tasks.

Academic Skills Development Curriculum

For Students with difficulties in reading, writing and comprehension.

Students in this Curriculum may not have been successful in their studies at another college or university. They need to build some skills in introductory courses before they can return to their current college. They may have AD/HD or another learning disability of a combination of the two. These students can enroll in our new student courses at the credit or non-credit level.

Students in the A.S.D. Track will:

• Enroll in a writing class specifically designed to improve writing process, written production, and the form and function of essays.

• Participate in a first year studies class designed to introduce them to critical reading and thinking, organizational skills, and learning theory used as a foundation for learning and improving overall college management skills

• Choose electives in areas of their interest, taught by professional faculty who vary their teaching to accommodate a variety of learning styles

To request more information on the Bridge Semester or for an application, please contact the Office of Admissions at: 802-387-6718 or email admissions@landmark.edu