About Project Success

Focused Student Population

Project Success works only with students with language-based learning and/or attentional disabilities. The average profile of an incoming freshman student in the Project Success program includes difficulty in one or more of the following areas:  reading decoding and/or comprehension, mathematics, written expression and spelling.  Therefore, we do not use staff time trying to work with a wide variety of populations and instead focus on providing the best resources and services for students with language-based learning and/or attentional disabilities. If you are unsure if you are a candidate for our program, please reach out to connect with our staff.

Remedial Instruction

Project Success is a remedial program, so our staff members focus on teaching and practicing strategies and skills that students can implement on their own to become independent learners as they progress through their academic coursework at UWO.

Organizational Tutoring

Project Success students can receive individualized support through organizational tutoring. Each new student is assigned to a case manager known as an organizational tutor who meets with the student on a weekly basis. The topics covered in the organizational tutoring meetings primarily focus on executive function strategies- time management, organization, and goal planning. Additional topics are determined with the student and may include understanding course structure and requirements, campus resources, transition to college, and self-advocacy practice. Students may also participate in group sessions and workshops offered throughout the semester.

Transition into College

Each summer, Project Success offers a transition program that includes college credits that count toward the university’s general education requirements. The program focuses on three areas: remediation of language-based deficits in reading and writing, and transition to college issues including self-advocacy and application of study skills in a university-required general education course.

Transition from College

All students who have earned 90 or more credits are eligible to participate in our capstone course, which focuses on the transition out of college and into the workplace. Capstone topics include preparing for job interviews, writing resumes, and cover letters with an emphasis on issues of job accommodations and disclosure of disability. Participants are also given the opportunity to be retested to update their documentation—a necessity for those going to graduate school or taking licensing examinations.