Reach One Teach One: Supporting Black Neurodivergent College Students Using a Mentorship Model
by: Adam Lalor, PhD., Kelly O'Ryan, & Marc Thurman Introduction In the fall of 2020, Landmark College’s Centers for Diversity …
Research & Training Blog : Research
Welcome to the Landmark College Institute for Research and Training (LCIRT) blog — the mission of this blog is to provide an avenue of communication between LCIRT and educators/professionals interested in the latest research, resources, and news related to learning differences.
A National Investigation of Disability Services Response to COVID-19
by Adam Lalor, Ph.D. and Manju Banerjee, Ph.D. Since March 2020, US colleges and universities have faced the greatest obstacle to delivering higher education…
An Analysis of College Disability Services Websites
LCIRT team publishes study on current state of accommodation decision-making at postsecondary institutions.
Summer Institute 2019 Keynote: Dr. Brett Miller on neurobiology and learning disabilities
We were honored to have Dr. Brett Miller deliver the closing Keynote address at this year's Summer Institute for Educators Dr. Miller is the…
Summer Institute 2019 Keynote: Dr. Sally Scott on Universal Design 2.0
In this excerpt of her Opening Keynote, Dr. Sally Scott, Senior Researcher at AHEAD discusses the themes that have emerged from several systematic reviews of Universal Design research.
Mindset and connectedness: keys to the good life for adolescents
In my time as a high school teacher, I worked with my fair share of teenagers who engaged in … challenging behavior. But the students that concerned me the most were those who did not have at least one trusting, positive relationship with some adult in school. In these scenarios, my fear stemmed from how little we know about the emotional state of our students at such a vulnerable part of their development. It was too easy to miss signs of& serious distress and even easier to miss crucial opportunities to help them expand their abilities or sense of possibilities. Their classwork and their grades could maybe tell us what, or if, they were learning; but we had few answers to the most essential question: how are they handling the critical challenges of adolescence? That so many of us have a story about a teacher (or some other caring adult) who played a critical role in guiding us through adolescence is a testament to the power and importance of the connections we should strive to make with our students.