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Farmer, Stephen S. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2000
This article discusses the role of literacy brokers, professionals who have developed usable knowledge and skills in the areas of clinical service delivery, tutoring, mentoring, counseling, and teaching to work with postsecondary students with language-learning disorders and their critical interactants. The use of dynamic literacy and sensemaking…
Descriptors: Advocacy, Counseling Techniques, Delivery Systems, Helping Relationship
Facilitating Self-Determination Abilities in Adults with LLD: Case Study of a Postsecondary Student.

Bashir, Anthony S.; Goldhammer, Richard F.; Bigaj, Stephen J. – Topics in Language Disorders, 2000
A case study of a graduate student with language-learning disorders is used to demonstrate the development of self-determination abilities. Academic and communication interventions were used to foster development of the student's self-knowing and self-valuing as the basis for becoming a self-determined individual. The role of the speech-language…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communication Disorders, Communication Skills, Higher Education

Olivier, Carolyn; Hecker, Linda; Klucken, Joyce; Westby, Carol – Topics in Language Disorders, 2000
This article describes the nature of the embedded language components of the postsecondary classroom and Landmark College's strategies to assist students with dyslexia, attention deficit disorders, and other language-based disabilities to develop the critical and abstract thinking, reading, writing and study skills that will enable them to…
Descriptors: Attention Deficit Disorders, Curriculum, Dyslexia, Higher Education