A second suggestion for limited success are inadequate transition services, including self-advocacy preparation, from high school into postsecondary education, especially for students with disabilities.

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- Stigma
- Inadequate Transition Services

***Both factors are theorized to affect students’ decisions regarding whether and when to seek services in university.

Possible Reasons for Limited Success of Students with Learning Disabilities

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. 

Reasons University Students with a Learning Disability Wait to Seek Disability Services

One prominent proposed reason for this limited success is that such student choose not to disclose their disability to college personnel. Most suggestions attribute this decision to issues of stigma, manifesting in self-misunderstanding and interpersonal misunderstanding (i.e. professors and peers believing them incapable of work/ less intellectually able given acknowledgement of disability). Only 35.5% of students with learning disabilities considered themselves having disabilities and chose to report it.

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