Universities are required by law to give students with disabilities access to support so they can succeed. Now that more and more students with learning disabilities are going to college,colleges are creating programs to help them succeed. There is a problem with those programs - they are geared to the moderately functioning special needs student. Often, these programs are not set up to help high functioning students with learning disabilities. University disability services usually look at students' GPA's to determine how much extra support they will get. Since high functioning students do well, these programs do not tend to address their needs even though they require certain support and accommodations too. These students fall through the cracks and end up supremely frustrated. If the goal is to even the playing field for students with special needs and help them achieve all that they can, why are these students getting so little support?
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