Case managers in Disability Support Services work to a limited extent with students to help them focus their career choices and to develop job readiness. We're fortunate to be able to refer students to excellent sources within the college who work in much greater depth on these issues. The Transition and Placement Program exists to help individuals with disabilities who are enrolling at Nicolet College to become better educated, more employable, and more independent. This program provides assistance in making educational and career decisions, setting and achieving goals, securing appropriate accommodations, and entering the world-of-work.
For more information about the Transition and Placement Program, call 365-4693.
Nicolet's Guidance and Development Office also offers in-depth career counseling. Call 365-4477.
Finally, Nicolet's Evaluation/Placement/Internship Office may also offer a variety of career testing and job-related services. Call 365-4448.
Edison's peculiar inquisitiveness as a young child impressed nobody but his tolerant mother. His first teacher described him as "addled'. His father almost convinced him he was a "dunce", and his headmasters warned that he "would never make a success of anything." Under his mother's tutelage, Edison became a precocious reader, and went on to patent over a thousand inventions whose value to humankind in incalculable.
Einstein's parents feared their son was retarded because he spoke haltingly until the age of nine, and thereafter would respond to questions only after a long period of deliberation. He performed so badly in all high school courses except mathematics that a teacher asked him to drop out of school. He failed his entrance exams to Zurich's Polytechnic Institute, and was delayed a year in enrolling. Even after graduation, he had trouble finding and holding a job.
Ford made it through school with a minimal grasp of reading and writing, however, he was able to fathom the inner workings of machines at an early age. He mended tools on his father's farm and entertained classmates by building waterwheels and steam engines.
Picasso's progress in school was slowed by his refusal to do anything but paint. When his father pulled him out of school at age 10, he could barely read or write. A tutor hired to prepare Picasso for secondary school gave up on him when he refused to learn mathematics. Although he passed his art school exams with flying colors, he soon quit out of boredom.
Nelson Rockefeller
As a boy, he said, "I saw all words backward and today I can't spell."
Woodrow Wilson
Learned to read when he was 11
Robert Kennedy
Speech dyslexia when young
James Watt, Scottish Engineer
Labeled"dull and inept" at his lessons, he found geometry at age 13 and went on to develop the steam engine.
George Patten, General in WW2
Lowell, The Poet
Said, "Spelling is the invention of the Devil."