title: Beating the odds--nothing is impossible, its just a road less traveled.
abstract: By contrasting students with learning disabilities and students with schizophrenia, it becomes conspicuously clear that they face many of the same hurdles. I know through personal experience because I have both. Postsecondary institutions are making great strides in balancing the scales for disabled students. Special education for learning-disabled students is more a hindrance than a benefit; mainstreaming many learning-disabled students seems a more appropriate option. Students need to take advantage of the services that are most beneficial to them. The least restrictive environment is predominantly, if not always, the correct choice.
authors.affiliation: peacebringer45@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Mike
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Brady
mesh_terms: D004185:Disability Evaluation; D004519:Education, Special; D006801:Humans; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000453:epidemiology; D019989:Persons with Intellectual Disabilities; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000453:epidemiology; D012944:Social Support; D013240:Stereotyping; D013334:Students