One potential path of exploration is looking into the group of students with LD that didn’t seek services and possibly conduct a longitudinal study following their interaction with high school services, transition services, and subsequent college services.

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- Students educated on the range of services offered by ODS: Informing and mobilizing parents to connect with ODS, given that they are highly influential towards their children when it comes to establish such contact
- High school counselors urging contact with ODS prior to the beginning of classes given students’ concerns on time constraints
- ODS should find more effective ways to reach students (“out compete” other services and programs that also vying for students’ attentions) when they first arrive on campus
- Call for more deliberate transition programming into college and decreased assumption that such students only need help with transition to work from high school
- Inclusion of students in IEP meetings
- Postsecondary staff informing high school staff on resources offered to students
- Increased communication  between high school staff and local ODS offices

Lightner, et. al.: Suggestions and Implication for Practice

Lightner, K. L., Kipps-Vaughan, D., Schulte, T., & Trice, A. D. (2012). Reasons University Students with a Learning Disability Wait to Seek Disability Services. Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability, 25(2), 145–159. 

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