Practitioner tips to help learners with transition planning to further education

• Ensure that adults learn effective study, time-management, test-preparation and test-taking strategies.
• Use actual reading materials that are used in the vocational program or on the job.
• Help learners determine, select and use a range of academic accommodations and technological aids, such as electronic date books, videodisc technology, texts on tape, grammar and spell checkers, and word processing programs.
• Help learners develop appropriate social skills and interpersonal communication abilities.
• Help learners develop self-advocacy skills, including a realistic understanding of the learning disability and how to use this information for self-understanding and communication with others (i.e. to explain to the Human Resources department why they could benefit from the use of an accommodation and increase their production level).
• Foster independence through increased responsibility and opportunity for self-management.
• Promote learners' self-esteem and self-confidence.
• Inform learners about admission requirements and demands of diverse postsecondary settings.
• Inform learners about services that postsecondary settings provide, such as disabilities services, academic services, and computer-based writing services.
• Ensure the timely development of documentation and materials in keeping with application time lines.
• Help learners select and apply to postsecondary institutions that will offer both competitive curriculum and the necessary level of learning disability support services.
• Develop ongoing communication with postsecondary personnel.²⁸