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The Learning Center Program |
| assisting college students with learning disabilities |
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| Tour 1627 Pearl Street, Eugene, Oregon 97401 |
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| Our goal is to assist college students who have learning disabilities with further education for a more productive future. Areas of Certification Guidance and Counseling
Reading, L.D., B.D., M.I.
Regular Education | Director Karen Pfunder, B.S. Ohio University
M.Ed., Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
Ed.S. Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland | |
Often a student with a learning disability finds a need for more individual assistance than a college environment provides in order to reach his or her potential. For this reason, The Learning Center has evolved.
We provide assistance, support and encouragement to enable the student to demonstrate what he can do. Because the support is private and on an individual basis, the student does not feel either different or labeled.
On a contractual basis we provide one-on-one tutorial services: three fifty minute periods per week, per course. Tutors have degrees and have training in strategies to assist the learning disabled student.
Academic counseling helps keep a student focused on how he/she learns and how to maximize academic strengths. This takes place weekly. Time management skills are stressed in both tutoring and counseling. Success is studied so it can be repeated and failures studied and shared. We work together to establish a different approach after a failure. Knowing how a student learns is important, and we attempt to help the student establish what individual approach works best. |
Fees are payable in advance of each quarter and are determined by the need of the student. A fee schedule is available through the center.
Tutoring includes one-on-one tutoring, three 50-minute periods a week, totaling 36 periods a quarter. This is on an as-needed, course-by-course basis. It also includes weekly academic counseling with the director dealing with learning styles, test taking, strategies, time management and stress reduction techniques. |
To receive services, a student must submit a current psychoeducational evaluation. A WAIS R, current within the last year with sub test scores included, is a helpful tool for the director in assisting tutors with educational strategies. Achievement test scores give us a starting point. A formal emotional assessment is only essential if the examiner or parents feel it is necessary. These test should be sent to Karen Pfunder and are kept confidential. Tutors do not have access to test information.
Lane Community College has open enrollment.
A student who receives an Oregon Transfer Degree from Lane Community College can apply to the University of Oregon. Services at our center will be available to your student until graduation.
Many students can apply directly to the University of Oregon through the special admission process. Contact the director for assistance in this procedure.
Services are available to students attending the University of Oregon, Lane Community College, and all other local post high school institutions in the Eugene area.
A student signs a contract with the center stating he will attend classes on a consistent and punctual basis. Tutors are paid even if a student does not attend. Failure to attend classes and tutoring on a consistent and punctual basis is cause for dismissal from the program. We can only help a student who is motivated to try. |
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