This semester, I’m taking a communication class and a mental health class, and I’m taking an independent study on computers.  I get help from my peers, and I get help from the teachers in my program.  My peer helpers will send me emails, or help me to make flash cards and talk to me on the phone.  I can meet with the professors and go over notes with them, too.  When I take tests and exams, someone reads them to me.

I also get to complete assignments in different ways.  For example, in one class I had, all the students had to write a paper about the Bush versus Kerry election, and the teacher asked me if I wanted to do a videotape instead.  So I did an interview with Elizabeth Bauer of the Michigan State Board of Education about her job.