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Wednesday Feb. 27, 2002
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Letters to the Editor
SALT Center unfairly attacked
This letter is in response to Joseph J. De La Rosa's Feb. 15 letter. In his letter, he makes some valid points about the frustrations brought on by the recent budget cuts. However, I was very dismayed by the comments in the latter part of his letter in which he attacks the existence of the SALT program and its building. The SALT program is a resource for students with learning disabilities. Students who are in this program represent a diverse cross-section of the university population from athletes to members of the greek system. Mr. De La Rosa's idea that "if you don't have a technique for learning by now, you are not a student and have no place on a college campus" is very distressing and is an uneducated assumption of the students in the program. SALT is an acronym for Strategic Alternative Learning Techniques. I stress the "alternative" in that those persons with learning disabilities need to have information presented to them differently because they process information differently. There are many studies involving brain scanning and imaging techniques which back this statement up. If Mr. De La Rosa needs references to those studies, I will gladly supply them. As far as the SALT program draining money from the university, I should point out that the program receives a substantial amount of its funding from a separate tuition paid by the students in the program. Also, the new building in which the program resides and operates could not have been built without the generous donations from people in the private sector.
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