Disability Services for Students

Please remember that the process of ordering electronic versions of textbooks can take 4 weeks and more. Therefore, if you would like to receive your books in time for the Winter 2012 term you should submit your order ASAP.

This is the information we require for EACH textbook:

COURSE INFORMATION:
Course name, number, section
Instructor's first & last name

TEXTBOOK INFORMATION:
Title
Author(s)
Edition
ISBN
Publisher

Where you bought it
When you bought it
What you paid

Please email your requests to dssaltformat@usask.ca

For more information, please see the DSS Alternate Format website at:
http://www.students.usask.ca/disability/dss/textbooks/
If you are at all confused by any of the above information, please call
966-2669 for help.

Posted by cab870 at 11:49 AM | Permalink

The “gap year” - taking a year off between high school and college or university - is a well-established tradition in the U.K., Australia and New Zealand. And it now seems to be gaining traction among Canadians.

For example, Travel CUTS, the student-owned travel company, offers gap-year abroad programs. There’s also a new group, mygapyear.ca, that does “personalized gap year planning” for students and young adults. Read more about this trend at http://www.universityaffairs.ca/margin-notes/the-gap-year-comes-to-canada

Students with disabilities may find the concept of a gap year - or gap years - has extra benefits in terms of post-secondary funding. Once a young adult works for two consecutive twelve-month periods, he is considered independent; and his parents' income no longer is a factor in Student Loan applications. In addition to providing work and life experience, taking time off between high school and university may work to a students' financial advantage in the long term.

Posted by jla134 at 03:43 PM | Permalink