Special Interest Groups
Links
DO-IT
http://www.washington.edu/doit/
Resources on electronic and information technology, postsecondary education
and careers for people with disabilities; one of the AccessIT sponsors.
The Adaptive Technology Resource Center
http://www.utoronto.ca/atrc/
Training, consultation, and information to help both educators and users with
adaptive technology.
How do individuals with disabilities access technology?
Read the publication and view the video Working Together: People with
Disabilities and Computer Technology at http://www.washington.edu/doit/Video/wt_dis.html.
View the video Access to Technology in the Workplace: In Our Own Words at
http://www.washington.edu/doit/Video/access_tech.html.
Purpose
The purpose of the Technology Special Interest Group (SIG) is twofold:
Sign up for the Community College SIG listserv by visiting the AHEAD Discussion page at http://www.ahead.org/about/discussion-lists
- We promise not to fill your e-mail box!
- We want to provide you with easily accessible resources and related services that you can use throughout the year. These resources will be posted on the AHEAD CC SIG web site and available to CC SIG members only.
- You know the value of communication and collaboration between professionals who share the same issues you face on a daily basis.
Publications
AHEAD presentations
Workshops/Conferences
Blind Students Can Succeed in Chemistry Classes
Community College Students Fall Through The Cracks
Best Practices
Open Enrollment issues
Here's what might very well be the next wave of debate and which could become one of the hottest and most contentious topics in the area of higher education and disabilities. Specifically, there is an increasing buzz about the increasing migration of individuals with cognitive/intellectual disabilities, including mental retardation, to higher education settings, primarily to community colleges. Of course, the discourse/debate is far-reaching and taxing philosophically, pedagogically, politically, socially, and financially.
Community College
Special Interest Groups
Date: Wednesday, July 16
Time: 1:00 - 2:30 PM
Location: check the program book
Lunch is provided for the first 25 people.
Jane Jarrow, Ph.D. will join us
for an enlightening discussion
on
“Students with Cognitive
Disabilities in the Community
College Setting”
Purpose is to help bridge the GAP experienced by many service providers and students with disabilities in graduate and professional programs.
Contacts:
- Christy Willis cwillis@gwu.edu
- Jane Thierfeld Brown jane.brown@law.uconn.edu
- Linda R. Walter lwalter@lsac.org
Disabilities Specialist
Law School Admin. Council
662 Penn Street
Newtown, PA 18940
Psychiatric Disabilities Special Interest Group Listserv
Psychiatric Disability SIG Responds to Members Request
Have you wondered what kind of training other post-secondary schools are providing their faculty on accommodating students with psychiatric disabilities, or perhaps look for training opportunities for yourself? Have you found yourself struggling with determining whether it is a reasonable accommodation to provide a single dorm room as an accommodation for a student with a psychiatric disability? Now you have some options.
Helpful Tools & Information from the Psychiatric Disabilities SIG
Samples of Tools to Obtain Adequate Documentation and Documentation Guidelines
Two examples, one from a small, private, liberal arts college and one from a large research university.
Sample Intake U. of Minnesota Form (Word doc, 21KB)
Sample Intake Marist College Form (Word doc, 27KB)
