1. Educational Partners Breakfast - MSJC
Michelle Peters, Interim Director
Disabled Student Programs & Services (DSPS)

2. Successful Students DSPS Students at MSJC
Samuel is Just One Example of What Students with Disabilities Can Do!
Samuel Fall – Interest in Nanoscale Engineering, specializing in Micro-Electromechanical Systems
Member, Phi-Theta Kappa (Honors)
Member, UCR’s STEM Wind Turbine Competition
Presenter, Research Conferences, including UCI
Supplemental Instruction Leader for Intermediate Algebra

3. Ways Students with Disabilities Have an Equal Chance of Success … Begins with Transition
Student understanding of:
Their educational goals
Realistic goals of how they will meet their goals
What their individual strengths and weaknesses are
What the impact of their disability means for them
Self Advocacy Skills

4. Student Understanding of Their Educational Goals
Do students understand :
there are academic requirements and pre-requisite classes to advance to a degree or having plans to transfer to a 4 yr college/university?
Students with disabilities have the same core requirements as any student

5. Realistic Goals of How Students Will Meet Their Goals
Promotes:
Student Confidence
Setting Priorities that Correspond with the Goals
Keeping the Vision & Persistence
Positive Attitude

6. What Students Individual Strengths & Weaknesses Are
How to use individual strengths, resulting in effective accommodations
How to minimize situations that rely on weaknesses to demonstrate academic ability

7. What the Impact of the Disability Means for the Students Learning and Navigation
What classes to enroll in
What is a realistic course load
What combination of classes to take in a semester
Which instructors may best fit their learning strengths to optimize classroom learning

8. Self Advocacy Skills A MUST for all college students! What it Means?
What is their disability?
How does it impact them?
Ability to discuss the non-technical terms of functional limitations
Feeling that it’s ‘OK’ to have a disability, the disability is part of who they are … it does not define a student!
Empowerment

9. 100 Things Every College Student With a Disability Ought to Know
By: Dr. Kendra D. Johnson, Ed.D. and
N. Hines
ISBN: X
2005
A great tool to have and it can be fun!

10. DSPS Website Tools http://www.msjc.edu/dsps Eligibility Workshop
Weekly offering – a requirement for all NEW DSPS students
Power Point is On-Line 24/7 – Encouragement to Go Thru Power Point with Those in Support Network
Slide 6 = Necessary Steps to Become Eligible for Accommodations & Services at MSJC

11. Questions & Wrapping Up
Advice & Recommendations
Start the registration process with DSPS E-A-R-L-Y!
Assist students in having their disability verification / medical documentation submitted to MSJC
Encourage students to put the accommodations and services they are eligible for into place B-E-F-O-R-E each semester begins