ALS: Student Strategies | Accessible Learning Services | Seneca Students

Welcome to Accessible Learning Services’ Student Strategies’ support page. 

Now that you have registered with ALS, met with an Accessibility Counsellor and completed the ALS screener(s), and discussed your personalized ALS Screener results with your assigned Accessibility Counsellor, you are invited to use the recommendations from your personalized ALS screener results to inform which resources available below you would like to further explore. 

The resources below address learning strategies which work in tandem with academic accommodations to support student access. 

A strategy is a plan of action used to achieve a goal. ​ 

Learning strategies are methods that help students improve their learning and academic success. They are conscious, intentional techniques that students use to adapt how they learn. 

• Involves identifying what works and how it works for learners. ​ 

• Relies on neural plasticity: the more a skill is practiced, the faster the neural pathways connect and these brain areas become larger and more fully developed.  

Students learn to work through a series of steps to improve in an area of deficit or to remediate a certain set of skills. Learning strategies are ways to learn information or accomplish tasks more effectively and efficiently, which has a positive effect on the success of, need for and intensity of academic accommodations.