• Dr. Steven Fadden (PI)
• Stephanie Kreseen (STARS Alliance Industry Coordinator)
• Julie Strothman (Project manager and Academic Liaison)

Landmark College's experience working with students with diagnosed learning disabilities (LD) is unique in higher education. Since its inception in 1985, the College has been the premier, fully accredited institution in the nation designed exclusively for students with dyslexia, AD/HD or other specific LD. A private, two-year institution located in rural Putney, Vermont, Landmark enrolls approximately 400 students with LD and/or AD/HD each year and provides an educational environment that responds to their individual learning styles. In 1998, the Wall Street Journal reported that "nobody knows the business of educating postsecondary students with learning disabilities better than Landmark College" and in 2003, the Princeton Review stated that "Simply put, Landmark College knows how to serve students who learn differently better that any other place on earth." Landmark offers Associates Degrees in General Studies or Business and provides a supportive environment and rigorous curriculum structured on innovative teaching techniques and individualized instruction. In the past five years, more than 90% of Landmark graduates have transferred to four-year postsecondary institutions.

The College shares and enhances its knowledge and expertise in the LD field through the National Institute (Institute). The Institute is the research, training and dissemination arm of the College and responds to the larger mission of influencing educational practices at regional and national levels. The Institute's work includes numerous extramurally-funded research and demonstration projects. In 1999, Landmark College received a Title VII Demonstration Projects to Ensure Students with Disabilities Receive a Quality Higher Education grant. Under this grant, the College created a comprehensive and integrated system of professional development for 20 postsecondary institutions in Vermont serving students with LD. The project was successful in improvi ng access to services for students with LD and in creating an LD support network for service providers and administrators in VT. Landmark's Title VII project also resulted in the publication of four monographs: Promoting Academic Success for Students with Learning Disabilities, Teaching Writing to Students with Learning Disabilities, Understanding Learning Disabilities, and Teaching in the Disciplines.

The College has an ongoing Title III Department of Education Strengthening Institutions Program grant, which includes an LD research projects component that has resulted in numerous peer-reviewed publications. The Institute has an active applied research demonstration project in progress at Carson High School, Carson City, Nevada, to determine the effectiveness of an assistive technology and learning strategies program for students with LD in a secondary educational setting. The College's recently completed grant projects include a National Science Foundation Program for Persons with Di s abilities grant entitled "Biology Success!," which resulted in a widely-disseminated biology curriculum and manual; an Eisenhower Higher Education Program grant entitled Literacy Enhancement Project for Springfield Schools; and a Demonstration Project to Develop a Model Implementation System for Improving Access to Public School and College Classrooms Through the Use of Assistive Technology, funded by a Congressional Award, which resulted in an assistive technology manual for educators of students with LD.