Academic Learning Support
What is academic learning support?
1. Outline
provision of scholarships is considered academic learning support in the sense that it helps students to study at a university. However, the term here refers to support for academic difficulties caused by a disability or support for students who face obstacles in their studies due to social barriers.
2. Relation with reasonable accommodation
Academic learning support is also sometimes used interchangeably with reasonable accommodations. However, reasonable accommodation is an exercise of a legally established right for students and an arrangement or change that universities are obligated to provide. Academic learning support can rather refer to a wide variety of support that encompasses such reasonable accommodations.
3. Content
There are two types of specifics: reasonable accommodations and other types of support. Reasonable accommodation has a certain scope. For example, the use of a study space is not an individual modification or adjustment but rather an environmental improvement. Learning how to organize documents, for example, does not constitute a reasonable accommodation. The same applies to support for deepening self-understanding and helping students to choose a learning style that suits them best.
Other types of support for study other than these reasonable accommodations include the following.
| support | description |
|---|---|
| Use of the Where to Be Space | Students can use the “Where to Be” space in the Ability Support Center to take a break, take online classes, or study on their own. This space is commonly used by students who have difficulty finding a place to stay or who cannot study alone in a calm environment. |
| Assistance with assignment management | We will work with you to manage your assignments: whether you have coursework assignments, what they are, when the deadlines are, which ones to work on first, what has been done and what has not been done. |
| Learning how to organize documents | For students who are not good at organizing documents and notebooks received from the university or used in class, we introduce how to store and classify documents and other materials, as well as useful tools and stationery. |
| Tutoring | Tutors help students who have difficulty understanding a particular subject or area of study. Advice and explanations are provided to help students understand the content. Tutoring is available when a staff member or student supporter is capable of assisting in a subject that requires tutoring. |
| Relay of communication | In cases of communication difficulties, we relay communication between faculty and students (parents, etc.), passing on communications from the faculty to the students, or contacting faculty, office staff, etc., on behalf of the student when the student is unable to communicate what they want to say. |
| Composition Instruction | We offer learning composition in groups for students who are not good at writing itself, not at academic writing. For more information, please see Composition Workshop for Students with Difficulties. |
| Learning how to learn | We offer group activities to learn learning methods that suit your characteristics. For more information, please see Adult Study benkyo Clab. |
| Counseling | A counseling service is available as a point of contact to address individual problems. In addition to discussing specific solutions within counseling, it can lead to setting up meetings with teachers and academic supervisors, as well as collaboration with office staff and others. |