<p>Anyone here have any experience with ADHD-type supports at Elon? </p>
<p>Much of what I read about the school seems supportive--there's a big academic support office and touting of experiential-based learning. What I'm really interested in is individual stories or examples of how freshmen with documented Learning Disabilities/Differences, especially on the ADHD spectrum, fare at the school. I know there's an Elon 101 course for freshmen--what else is there to help freshmen get up and running? Are there other small supportive freshman seminars? Good tutoring? Do students fall through the cracks, or do the professors and/or freshmen advisors keep an eye on their academic progress?</p>
<p>D does not have ADHD but a number of her friends and classmates have accomodations;</p>
<p>Susan Wise in disabilities services is the go-to person for freshman; we have heard very good things about programs for freshman, including advising, tutoring etc…</p>
<p>Even without our daughter having accomodations, all freshman are closely monitored by their Elon 101 professors; many have multiple meetings with their students to make sure they are on track…</p>
<p>Mind you, Elon 101 is only first semester…kids are on their own in the Spring unless they have already declared their majors…</p>
<p>Let me know if you have any further questions…</p>
<p>I’m very interested to hear about first hand experiences too. My son is thinking about attending Elon in the fall and has ADHD and will be requesting accommodations. I spoke to Ms. Wise briefly, but didn’t get any information other than instructions to check their website.</p>
<p>My D does not have ADD, but she has a very close friend who is a senior at Elon and has both ADD and dyslexia. He will be graduating on time, with a good GPA. I don’t know much about his accommodations except that D has mentioned that he gets extra time on tests and I think he gets to sign up for classes earlier. </p>
<p>Elon 101 only lasts half of first semester. It was helpful to my D but I wouldn’t count on it for serious support. If she was “closely monitored” I wasn’t aware of it and she didn’t mention it. I would think that Ms. Wise and the Academic Support Office would be a much better source of support for students with ADHD, etc.</p>
<p>On the other hand, my daughter says all of her professors have known her name and many make a sincere effort to get to know their students. At least one professor from an intro course she took 1st semester freshman year still greets her by name when they cross paths (she’s a 2nd semester sophomore). I would think that a student who reached out to their professors at Elon would generally be very warmly received, and I don’t see a high likelihood of students “falling through the cracks.”</p>
<p>^^i guess I should explain…during orientation, there is a parents only meeting with the Elon 101 cohort that your freshman is assigned to; students are not there…</p>
<p>It was at that point that we were told that the Elon 101 advisors have access to the students’ grades during first semester and check them regularly…I don’t think the students were even aware of this unless there was an issue; our D had no idea…but she did say that there were others in her Elon 101 class that had been called in to meetings with the professor after midterms in the fall…</p>
<p>Just wanted to clarify…</p>
<p>Totally agree that if a student registers with disability services, they would have closer monitoring and accomodations…</p>
<p>My D is registered due to her requirement for a gluten free diet; so she is on the list serve…she continuously gets emails from Ms Wise that don’t apply to her, but reiterate students need to make sure their schedules are submitted so that accomodations can be communicated to all professors…</p>
<p>Which brings up another point; disability services includes not only learning disabilities, but also any medical issues that require accomodations…they are combined here; not sure how it is handled elsewhere…</p>
<p>If your son or daughter is already receiving accommodations in high school make sure you save all documentation including I.E.P.s and Educational and Psychological evaluations , as you will have to provide these to the college. I have no experience with Elon with this,. (My other son attended other colleges and needed accommodations. ) I imagine Elon will be pretty well organized in this area though, as they are in most things.</p>