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By: Fallon Stoeffler

For a long time, people have handled mental health disorders at arms length. Rest assured: you cannot catch a mental illness by standing near someone with a mental illness. If your child attends school and befriends or socializes with a child with ADHD, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, or Mental or Physical Retardation, they will not "catch" any of these disorders. And certainly, if you take time to educate yourself about mental illness, you will not only not be affl...

• It is best to review the material right after class when it's still fresh in your memory.
• Don't try to do all your studying the night before the test. Instead space out your studying, review class materials at least several times a week, focusing on one topic at a time.
• Have all of your study material in front of you: lecture notes, course textbooks, study guides and any other relevant material. Find a comfort...

• Figure out your best way to take notes
• Try taking a voice recorder to class to record the lecture so that you may listen to it later if need be. It is more preferred to purchase the one that hooks up to your computer.
• Print out notes before heading to class
• Concentrate on taking notes in classes that are purely lecture styled where you are just listening. When it comes to...

Written by: Jenna Green 6/27/2011

Majority of students with disabilities get one or two bad grades. Don't let it get you down. We are all not capable of being good at everything but we are capable of giving 100 percent. So you get your grade and you aren't to happy with it, so what do you do? Ignore it? Continue to fail? No! You raise it. Below are some tips that can help you raise your grade.

• Figure out why yo...

Written by: Jenna Green 4/10/2011

Managing your time can make you feel more in control of your life and actually give you more free time to participate in the activities that are important to you. Managing your time will allow you to achieve more and lead a balanced life. Managing your time is school is necessary so you do not feel stressed over big exams. So how do you manage your time? What steps can you take? Try some of the following: