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“As a student with an LD, my biggest fear in high school was raising my hand in class, and not knowing the answer. But now, especially when I meet with my PAL advisor, I have more confidence and I feel like I'm more prepared to participate in class.”
Brandon Traina '11
Major: Criminal Justice
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Educational Diagnostic Center
The Educational Diagnostic Center (EDC) in PAL at Curry College is a comprehensive evaluation and testing center specializing in the learning needs of adolescents and adults. The Diagnostic Center welcomes adolescents and adults in need of learning strategies, long-term educational plans, and better understanding of their learning profiles.
The EDC offers the following services:
- Psycho-educational assessment
- Profile of strengths and weaknesses
- Documentation of a need for accommodations
- Second opinion evaluations
- Dynamic assessment
- Screenings
- Diagnostic teaching
- Tutoring services
The Educational Diagnostic Center continues the Curry College commitment to personalized education. Providing a strength-based, team approach to diagnostic testing, the evaluators of the EDC are dedicated to understanding each individual's learning strengths and challenges. Our staff includes special educators and learning disabilities specialists, registered educational therapists, school psychologists, and educational psychologists, all of whom are masters or doctoral level trained.
For information please contact:
Sanne Dinkel, Educational Diagnostic Center Interim Coordinator @ 617-333-2313 or e-mail her at sdinkel@curry.edu .
NOTE: Dr. Nancy Winbury, EDC Coordinator, is on sabbatical in the spring 2013 semester and Profesor Dinkel will handle all EDC business during that time.
Apply today to be a part of a structured support program providing assistance to bright, college-able students with specific learning disabilities and/or AD/HD.
Students, alumni and faculty share success stories and discuss the advantages of the PAL program at Curry College.
Criminal Justice major Brandon Traina one day hopes to become a part of one of the most prestigious law enforcement organizations in the world, the NYPD.
A Psychology and Criminal Justice double-major, Katie Russell decided in her junior year to take a semester at sea, a whirlwind academic boat trip which took her to 14 different countries.
"The PAL program has allowed me to be much more involved in school. The faculty and staff point out my strengths so now I know where I'm able to channel what I'm good at. I honestly had no idea of my potential before PAL."
Holden Kepecs '85 is an Emmy, Cable Ace and Grand Gracie Award-winning video editor, but throughout his life, he's had to work harder than most to get to where he is today.
