Higher Education Support Toolkit
The Higher Education Support Toolkit (HES) provides disability service staff and health care staff with a simple way to work with students who are experiencing limitations arising from their psychiatric disability.
Sometimes it only takes a small change to make a dramatic difference in the ability of a student to be optimally engaged in college classes. By helping students to identify the ways in which they are being challenged, disability and support services staff can then direct students to campus resources and discuss strategies for the classroom that meet their particular needs.
The HES Toolkit is free.
Worksheets can be downloaded:
- together as a unit that includes background on the challenge of achieving academic success for a student living with a mental illness or
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by section (Student Self-Assessments; Getting Connected to Campus Resources; and Actions & Accommodations in the College Classroom).
The Higher Education Support Toolkit (HES) was developed by Lyn Legere, Kathleen Furlong-Norman, Christine Gayler, and Cathy St. Pierre.
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The complete toolkit
Includes all the contents located at this website:
- Student Self-Assessments Forms
- Getting Connected to Campus Resources
- Actions and Accommodations in the Classroom
- Introduction
- Background
- Additional Resources
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Use these forms:
- to help a student identify the areas in which assistance would be helpful and
- to help a student identify common disability-related limitations that affect classroom participation
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Use these forms:
- to create a comprehensive handout of the resources specific to your campus and community, and
- to help student and staff together to customize a take-away sheet of campus resources that meet a particular set of needs
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Use this guide:
- to help staff understand the range of common limitations for a student with one of more particular psychiatric disability, and
- to help student and staff together to determine appropriate strategies for use in the classroom and explore options for using accommodations
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Learn more on this website about:
- the challenges of achieving academic success for a student living with a mental illness
- the Center's involvement in supporting students on campus plus an overview of the Toolkit and
- additional resources such as organizations, websites, fact sheets, and articles relevant to students with psychiatric disabilities.
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