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College & Postsecondary Career Guidance & Vocational Testing

Understanding Learning Style Can Dramatically Improve Academic Achievement

The Center for Psychological Services has had many years of experience helping students reach their maximum potential.
On occasion, students who are in college or even graduate school struggle to achieve academically. In such cases, it is important to determine the reasons, to assess their needs, and to find ways to help them meet with more success.

Sometimes students are unable to achieve because of a previously unrecognized learning weakness or because the advanced academic demands of a college curriculum tax them beyond their abilities or level of preparation.

Other young people cannot balance the social and educational expectations and emphasize one at the expense of the other. Even those students who appear prepared to assume the independence that college life permits sometimes find they are actually ill-equipped for this experience.

The staff of the Center for Psychological Services evaluates the situation and the student. They then make recommendations to implement appropriate changes. This is accomplished in conjunction with college personnel, in order to provide a coherent approach which can satisfy the individual student, the family, and the institution.

The process varies depending on each situation, and can include any or a combination of the following services:

• Consultation
• Review of Records
• Intellectual Evaluation
• Academic Assessment
• Psychological Evaluation
• Career and Vocational Counseling
• Specific Recommendations
• College Accommodations
• Student Support
• Alternative Placements
• In-Service Training
• Seminars
• Workshops

College & Postsecondary Career Guidance & Vocational Testing