Executive Skills Support for Diverse Learners
Note Taking Support
Memory aids that work for you.
However you struggle, we’ll help you identify it. Then we draw on a wide range of note-taking strategies to address your unique set of challenges. You will learn how to use your strengths to overcome your weaknesses, how to recognize social cues to determine the importance of lecture content, and how to obtain assistance from your institution.
What Our Clients Struggle with
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Instructors speak more quickly than you process language
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Handwriting speed lags behind your listening speed
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Learning style predisposes you to other methods of recording information
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No one took the time to teach you note taking skills
How We Help
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Identify the nature of their struggles and draw on a wide range of strategies to address their unique challenges.
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Build a personalized toolkit of techniques, teaching clients how to use their strengths, like leveraging visual learning with techniques involving colour, spacing, and size
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Teach clients how to recognize instructor cues about important content and how to obtain assistance from their institution, such as asking for audio recording permissions or requesting a note-taker
We can also help you access resources from your institution:
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Determining how and when it is appropriate to make audio recordings of lectures
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Asking for permission to make those audio recordings
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Requesting the services of a note-taker