Resource Guides: Neurodiversity: UMA Resounces

UMA Resources

In this section of the resource guide, you will find a variety of helpful UMA resources for students, faculty, staff, and members of the neurodiverse community. The goal for this section is to help connect you with neurodiverse-friendly spaces and services. If there is a resource you'd like to see listed here, please contact uma.library@maine.edu

If you have any questions about these resources, contact UMA's Academic Success division at: umasuccess@maine.edu.

Student Resources

General Resources

UMA Academic Calendar

Financial Resources

Book Vouchers Form
**From Financial Aid: "Remember this is for students who are registered, have aid offers
posted and do not have unpaid balance."

Advising & Counseling

Academic Advising
Academic Advising at the University of Maine at Augusta has been designed to enhance, facilitate, and promote student success. Whether you are changing your major, setting goals, or seeking resources, they are available to assist you.
Career Connections
Embarking on the journey of shaping your career at UMA is an exhilarating adventure, filled with tailored support and dynamic opportunities. UMA's career advising services are meticulously crafted to ignite your ambitions and guide you towards realizing your professional aspirations.
Confiedential Resource Advisors
Confidential Resource Advisors (CRAs) provide emergency and ongoing support to individuals impacted by sexual violence, relationship violence, and stalking. Our free confidential services are available to students and employees across the University of Maine System.
Counseling and Wellness Services
Counseling can be a great resource to help enhance your academic success as well as your overall college experience. UMA counselors provides a safe, non-judgmental setting where you can discuss your challenges and get support. You and the clinical counselor work together to agree on what issues you want to address, and what you want to get out of the counseling process.

UMA 24/7 Mental Health Hotline

For counseling emergencies, please call the UMA 24/7 Mental Health Hotline at (207) 621-3344.

CARE Team
The mission of the UMA Campus Assessment Response Evaluation Team (CARE) is to coordinate and implement policy development, education, and timely intervention in regard to students exhibiting signs of serious distress, or engaging in harmful or disruptive behavior.

The CARE Team is not a crisis or emergency response team, but provides a system for proactive intervention to student behaviors of concern in order to reduce disruption and facilitate a safe, respectful and productive learning and working environment.

Academic Success

Academic Success Coaching
Individualized professional success coaching focuses on organizational skills, time-management, motivation, life/school/work balance, scholarship help, career exploration, post-grad planning, and tearing down barriers.
Tutoring
Tutoring is intended to help students increase their understanding of course material, and improve their learning and study skills. Tutoring is available for most developmental and introductory courses as well as some upper-level courses. It is provided in individual or small group settings by qualified community or peer tutors.
UMA Writing Center
Led by UMA writing faculty and staffed by undergraduate students, the Writing Center offers UMA writers (students from all majors) a point of connection on the Augusta or Bangor campus. Stop by to plan and outline a writing project, gain an outside reader’s perspective on a draft, learn tips and tricks for academic writing conventions and proofreading strategies, connect with campus community members. Available for consultations in-person or via email or Zoom.
TRIO Scholars Program
TRIO Scholars is student support services funded by a federal grant to serve students who are first in their families to earn a bachelors degree, using accommodations to access their learning and classrooms, or using a larger amount of financial aid to attend university. TRIO is a department that amplifies and intensifies many services found on campus and focuses specifically on helping students sign up for classes, navigate financial aid, FAFSA, and economic literacy, as well as amplifies tutoring and exploration of graduate school. Students are eligible for TRIO if they are a U.S. Citizen or permanent resident enrolled in a 4-year degree at UMA and who are first generation, low income, or have a disability.

Accessibility

Accessibility Services
Accessibility Services is the department within the Division of Academic Success which is responsible for providing necessary accommodations to students with disabilities in accordance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
Accomodations Process
Students and prospective students with disabilities should follow this link if they require academic or residential accommodations.
Adaptive Technology Resources
Maine CITE
Maine CITE program helps people of all ages and all abilities explore tools and technologies to make life easier. Maine CITE also provides services to caregivers, family members, employers, educators, health care providers, social service providers and others seeking assistive technology information.

Maine CITE services are available to all Maine residents and no documentation of disability is required.

Community Spaces

Finding a community is a great way to find friends, build connections, and discover new passions. Check out some of these clubs and other community spaces here at UMA.

UMA Clubs
Check out some of the several clubs there are at UMA. Student Clubs & Organizations offer students a chance to connect with their classmates on similar interests or areas of study. Joining a club can mean building a cohort with your fellow classmates.
UMA Community Gardens
Over the last few years, the University of Maine at Augusta Community Gardens have been reborn as educational centers that integrate coursework, research, student clubs, campus events, and outreach to surrounding communities. In the gardens, growing community and growing food take place side by side. The vegetables we grow are donated to on-campus food closets and off-campus food banks as part of our commitment to address food insecurity in the state of Maine. In this way, the UMA Community Gardens are not just projects for engagement but also for service and justice.

UMA Community Gardens are located on the Augusta and Bangor Campuses

Physical Spaces

These physical spaces on the August and Bangor campuses have been identified as neurodiverse-friendly spaces.

UMA Libraries
Katz Library (Augusta) and Nottage Library (Bangor) are great places to study, unwind, or just exist! Both libraries have dedicated quiet zones, Zoom rooms, and brand new Nook Pods. The libraries are open to the public.
Better Together Gardens (Maine CITE)
MaineCITE has created an accessible garden space to demonstrate tools and accessible design ideas.

The demonstration garden space features:
-Accessible pathways,
-Raised beds and planters,
-Different work heights,
-Adaptive garden tools to try yourself, and
-Beautiful plants to see, feel, smell, taste and hear!

Garden is located outside the Maine CITE office in the Katz Building on the Augusta Campus. This garden is open to the public.
Fitness Centers
UMA Fitness Centers are located on the Augusta and Bangor Campuses and are free for students, staff, and faculty.