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Volume 10, Number 2
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Disability Simulations As A Teaching Tool:
Some Ethical Issues and Implications
G. Thomas Behler, Jr.
Abstract: The paper focuses on some of the major
ethical issues involved when employing disability simulations as
a teaching tool in college-level courses on individuals with disabilities.
These issues include: (a) the importance of maximizing the authenticity
of the simulation experience; (b) the need to confront situations
in which the simulation experience leads to increased discouragement
on the part of some student participants; (c) the necessity for
faculty members to recognize and fulfill various obligations to
students, to the host institution, and to the larger community if
disability simulations are conducted as required course exercises;
and (d) the need to convince students of the relevance of disability
simulations to their own lives, and to the larger society. The substance
of the paper is derived mainly from personal reflections of the
author regarding his experiences in conducting disability simulation
exercises in college-level courses dealing with people with disabilities
and disability-related issues.
Achievement-Related Beliefs of College Students
with Disabilities
Ron Nelson, Deborah J. Smith, Valerie Appleton, and Karen Raver
Abstract: The purpose of this study was to
create a descriptive account of the factors college students with
disabilities view as important to their academic success. Thirty-six
college students with disabilities receiving services from a northwestern
university's Disabled Student Services Office were asked to describe
the basis of their academic success or failure. An ethnographic
open-ended interviewing technique was employed to allow the students
to describe their academic performance and the experiences the
considered important in their own terms. In addition to psychological
belief factors, the participants in this study assessed their
performance in terms of the supportiveness of family, faculty,
and students with whom they worked. The implications of these
results for university programs for students with disabilities
are discussed.
Residence Hall Students' Attitudes Toward
Resident Assistants with Learning Disabilities
James J. Vander Putten
Abstract: The degree of attitude change of
college students living in residence halls toward peers with learning
disabilities (LD) serving as resident assistants (RAs) was investigated.
This longitudinal study involved 45 traditional-aged undergraduate
students and 24 RAs. Farrell and Harckham -s (1988) instrument
for assessing attitude toward college students with LD was used.
After one semester of interaction with RAs with LD, RA attitudes
toward peers with LD remained favorable, and student attitudes
became more favorable.
Report on an International Conference on
Disability in Higher Education
Betty P. Aune
Abstract: A report on an international conference
of disability service providers in higher education was held July
10-13, 1992 at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. Fifty delegates
from 15 countries attended the conference, including a number
of professionals who have disabilities. The conference represented
a first step in establishing an international network of service
providers and laid the groundwork for a similar future gathering.
Copyright 1993, Association on Higher Education
and Disability
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