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Amanda Eastburn, junior, Business Administration major, Anna Olansky, sophomore, Special Education major and president of B.O.L.D., represented Brenau University at Learning Disabilities Association semi-annual meeting in Chicago February 26-28, 2003. Dr. Vincent Yamilkoski, Director of the Learning Center and Dr. Lucy Bartlett, Director of the Brenau Academy Learning Center, also served on the Brenau panel addressing Post-Secondary Education. Click the links below to view the presentations.			Latest update: on 05/25/06 Some downloadable documents on this page are in Adobe Acrobat format. Click the button for free download if you don't have Acrobat Reader. • •
Amanda considered the advocacy workshop of great value. She enjoyed role playing, sharpening listening skills, and learning to identify traits she had a younger age. Amanda also enjoyed learning about toxic effects that processed foods have on interrupting the learning process. Amanda delivered her speech to students in Brenau's Nursing Department upon her return.
Local student with learning disability excels - with a little help from his friends. [Gainesville Times story] Visit the Learning Center The Learning Center welcomes visits from prospective students and parents. Dr. Vince will represent the Learning Center at College Day in Gwinnett County on May 13, 2003. Final Exams are proctored in the Learning Center. Students acknowledge oral assistance accommodations increased their grade scores. Students can register for extended time testing for quizzes, tests, and exams in the Learning Center. New Learning Tools Through the generosity of anonymous donors the Learning Center has purchased two Reading Pens and an electronic bilingual dictionary. Mentor Program available to all students. This rewarding program, in its second year, matches students with Brenau faculty and staff members in the student's major interest. Mentors help students through personal experience helping with resources and emotional support. To participate, contact guythompson@charter.net or see the mentors program website for more information. Did you know? Learning Center students held titles for these contests all in one year? President - Brenau Fellowship Association President - Pan Hellenic President - Student Government Association May Queen	Assistive Technology Available to Students through Generous Donation to Learning Center The Kurzweil 3000 (photo below) is a PC-based reading system developed specifically for ease of use by students and teachers. In particular, it is an ideal compensatory aid for individuals with reading difficulties. The Kurzweil 3000 Scans and reads pages from any book or document, and reads World Wide Web Pages and imported electronic documents. Speaks and highlights text simultaneously, providing auditory and visual representation. Offers clear, natural-sounding synthetic speech in a choice of reading voice personalities. Offers a 175,000 word dictionary with synonyms. Highlights selected text and extracts the highlights into a new document. Enables users to insert typed or spoken notes anywhere within a document. Provides text-editing options for teachers before students read. Reads back student-generated writing to assist in proofreading. Other audio tools available on the Internet...make nice holiday gifts:-) www.readplease.com www.texthelp.com www.inspiration.com TEXTBOOKS AVAILABLE ON CD Students have benefited from electronic copies of textbooks available from several publishers. For example, this semester, Sociology in Our Times, 3/e and Microbiology, 5/e were ordered for a student. The student was able to read the book on CD in the Learning Center, the Redwine Technology Center, or on her home PC where she has the Kurzweil 3000 software. Students can request this free service from Evelyn Asher, Office Manager. Please give several weeks notice for timely delivery.		Seen and Heard LEARNING CENTER STUDENTS IN THE BRENAU COMMUNITY Amanda Eastburn chose Assessment Day to declare her major in Business Administration. Kim Clairy, Occupational Therapy major is on the Brenau soccer team. Kim will be attending Brenau University's Leadershape program this summer. Briana Dennis, Art and Design Major, won first prize for designing the logo for the Math and Science Department. Briana also designed a logo for Newcomers Group of Gainesville's Relay for Life Team. Summer Flournoy, studio art major, participated in Guerilla Girls promoting women in the Arts. Summer currently has her art on display in the student exhibit in Simmons Gallery. Elizabeth Gross works in the Simmons Gallery. Liz, fashion design major, was seen sporting the smashing gray corduroy carryall bag she designed. Laura Jarrett was interviewed for the Student Spotlight in Brenau's The Alchemist student newspaper. Laura was selected to be a peer advisor for the 2003-2004 school year. Ann Jameson, sophomore, helps with costume changes for Gainesville Theatre Alliance productions. Morgan Lunsford, junior, is a member of Brenau's soccer team. Morgan also participates in Weekends Away, a new program that explores attractions in Northeast Georgia. Susan Papesh, sophomore, changed her major to fashion design. Susan is helping one of her sorority sisters with the costumes and TV production for her senior thesis in theatre. Lane Womack, junior, will be going to Guatemala for a month-long summer program earning credits in Spanish and Psychology under the guidance of Dr. Lisa Vaughn. Marinel Wood spoke to students against drunk driving at the Georgia Mountains Center sharing the video of the reenactment of her accident. Marinel is a spokesperson for the Department of Safety encouraging students to use good judgment.

Community Service The following is a response to students sending holiday cards to residents at New Horizons West... Ms. Asher, I am the Director of Long Term Care for NE Ga. Medical Center. Lou forwarded to me your e-mail and I want to thank you for your thoughtfulness towards our residents. It means a lot to the residents and staff when people like you and the students provide for some of our less fortunate residents. Lou and the others or us on staff at our facilities oftentimes go above and beyond our "call of duty" in caring for our residents, but working in our LTC facilities is our jobs. It is something even more special when volunteers go out of their way to help. Thank you for your concern and interest. Henry Roberts
PLANNING and GOAL SETTING (taken from ADULT ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER, AN INTRODUCTION by Susan Sussman, M.Ed Both long range and short-term goal setting and planning are frequently difficult for adults with ADD. Practice and skill development in these areas are very important because ADD individuals don't always see the connection between failing to plan and planning to fail. In order to achieve you must have goals; and in order to reach the goals you must develop a plan and decide on useful strategies to put your plan into action. Without goals, a person's thoughts and actions can be random and non-productive, almost the exact opposite of the saying "All roads lead to Rome." All roads only lead to Rome if you clearly see Rome as your destination (setting your goal), have the necessary knowledge (what you need: plane ticket, hotel reservation, spending money) and develop a plan of action based on the knowledge of what you need to do to achieve your goal (save $50 a week for a year; get a passport; enroll in the adult night school Italian class; write to the family in Italy; get some guide books and develop a specific itinerary, etc.		Time management Learn to say no! Do not study for more than 2 hours at a time. Use travel time to study Try to study during daylight hours Use two schedules - hour by hour and semester schedule showing midterms, finals, due dates, and other important events. Review both schedules weekly and allow more study time as needed. Prioritize: daily list what you need to study. Prioritize and set times for each item...and stick to it. Use the 30-3-2 schedule Study for 30 minutes Take a 3-minute break to think about other things. Upon returning, take an extra 2 minutes to mentally review what you just read. Do a quick preview of what is coming up next.