Skill or Competency

Thanks to a link from www.ZTCollege.com  I found a list of different items that will help me address the deficiencies I mentioned in my first post.  And in addition I have included the email I sent to the University of Waterloo.

The Letter:
"Hello,

I found your site through ZTCollege.com.  The article that I am contacting you in regards to is the Page titled "Independent Studies; Readiness to learn" questionnaire.  Due to a brain injury I sustained 3 and a half years ago, I am currently disabled I am in in need of redeveloping all or most of the skills that it mentions.  The self evaluation results are: ready but unable.

Unfortunately most of the aid agencies and medical help I have been able to locate have not been very useful, from what I have seen so far with state agencies (I am from New York State in the US) all that I am able to look forward to is getting extended test taking time at a regular university.  

So the question is, what resources are available to address those deficiencies prior to returning to university?  If I were to pick the top areas it would be Problem Development skills, Evaluation skills, and Completion Skills, and the interchange between Evaluation skills, and Completion Skills.

Sincerely,

Gary Reimer"

This at the moment has been copied without permission but the link is below to the full article.
http://cte.uwaterloo.ca/teaching_resources/tips/self-directed_learning_readiness_to_learn.html

SKILL OR COMPETENCY	CURRENT IMPORTANCE 1-very 2-fairly 3-not very 4-unimportant	CURRENT SKILL RATING 1-excellent 2-good 3-adequate 4-poor
Life skills: Organisation of time and resources in your life, co-operation in working with others, available support network
Independence: Autonomy, self-motivation, self-reliance, resourcefulness, initiative, and judgment
"Basic” skills: Literacy, numeracy, graphicity, computer literacy, etc.
Information skills: Ability to find information by: using libraries; abstracts; community resources; interpreting data, charts, tables, timetables, etc.
Study skills: Organisation of material for projects, note-taking and reading for different purposes, understanding assignment requirements
Learning to learn: Awareness of task demands, flexibility, self-knowledge of learning preferences, awareness of learning process, self-evaluation
Planning skills: Ability to design a plan of strategies for meeting learning needs, ability to carry out a plan systematically and sequentially
Problem development skills: Ability to formulate questions that are answerable through various research activities (projects, library, readings)
Analytical skills: Ability to select and use most effective means of acquiring information, ability to analyse and organise information, ability to select most relevant and reliable information sources
Communication skills: Ability to write reports, essays, instructions, discourse, display data, etc.
Evaluation skills: Ability to collect evidence of accomplishments and have it evaluated, ability to accept constructive feedback from others
Completion skills: Ability to identify problem areas, ability to revise work, commitment to completing units and program

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Any feedback you might be able to provide would be appreciated.

Thanks for reading so far.