Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 provides an impetus for the development of special services for learning-disabled college students. The article describes the problems of three such students and the services they needed to improve their chances for academic success. The authors provide suggestions for working with the learning-disabled college population.
Here is her notebook, neatly kept Hand-written entries, all correct, Doctors dates are duly noted, Specimens, tests: results are quoted-Interspersed with presentations, Lecture notes, speaking engagements, Then checks for lumps in groin and breast, Medication and surgery next, Pulses taken, medicine changed, Lymphoma diagnosis named, Now crystal words, distilled in pain, Pure verse flowed on, and death became-Part of life, as she was dying, "Growth 'till death!" (No time for crying.)
Norma S. Gilbert Counseling and Mental Health University of the District of Columbia'Things Just Are, They Just Are Kurpius, D. Consultation theory and process: An integrated model.Principles concerning the counseling-therapy of women. Counseling Psychologist, 1978, 7, 74-76.
Diagnostic classification systems have proven useful to counseling professionals in many ways. The authors describe the Ecological Diagnostic Classification Plan, an approach to diagnosis that includes the environment as a possible cause of pathology and target of intervention.
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