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DISABLED Faculty & Staff: Intersecting Identities in Higher Education (Volume 2)
Edited by:  Mary Lee Vance , PhD & Elizabeth G. Harrison, PhD (2023)
Foreword by Haben Girma

In this second volume of DISABLED, coeditors Mary Lee Vance, PhD and Elizabeth G. Harrison, PhD have curated a collection of writings by 28 contributing authors who have provided personal narratives of what it is like to “work while disabled” in higher education. The authors, who represent an array of disabilities, identities, and nationalities, shine a light on the current state of accessibility and support for disabled faculty and staff in postsecondary careers. They establish their positionality by identifying their disability and other identities, illustrate how they’ve experienced the intersectionality or entangling of these identities in the context of work and daily life in higher education, and offer constructive suggestions and recommendations for how to make everyday life at their institution more equitable, inclusive, and accessible. The authors’ experiences clearly show that institutions must learn not only to identify, but also to oppose, ableism. The book also provides recommendations for how to use the contributors’ experiences to initiate campus conversations and classroom discussions toward building an anti-ableist environment, leveraging universal design, and the recognition that there is no diversity without disability.

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Laws, Policies, and Processes: Tools for Postsecondary Student Accommodation 
Edited by:  Mary Lee Vance and Tom L. Thompson (2023)

This book is a Swiss Army Knife for disability professionals, including disability rights history, basic to advanced legal principles, direct advice to disability professionals, an eloquent presentation of the student perspective by Haben Girma, and tips for building a more inclusive academic environment. After years of presenting their highly popular and well-attended disability law trainings, Jamie Axelrod and Paul Grossman have put their legal guidance into writing, thoroughly covering legal concepts such as who is a “qualified student with a disability,” when a reasonable accommodation is “necessary,” and determining whether a requested or proposed accommodation is “reasonable” on its face. This is followed by a discussion of the “affirmative defenses,” including fundamental alteration, undue burden, and direct threat to health and safety, and when it is appropriate to assert these. This book is a must for college administrators, disability office professionals, ADA Coordinators, faculty, and anyone else who works with students with disabilities in higher education.

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Universal Design in Study Abroad
 Creating Inclusive Educational Travel Opportunities for Students with Disabilities
Edited by: Dr. Gina Oswald and Thomas P. Webb (2022)

Universal Design in Study Abroad: Creating Inclusive Educational Travel Opportunities for Students with Disabilities is the culmination of our collective experience and knowledge in universal design for learning, disability challenges and accommodations, and developing/co-leading fully accessible study abroad experiences. Our intention for the book is to increase international educational opportunities for all students through establishing a better understanding of proactive design measures and clear guidance on individualized accommodations. This book was developed to be particularly helpful to practitioners in international and accessibility/disability offices in higher education, faculty who may be designing or leading study abroad experiences for students with disabilities, students with disabilities and their advocates, vocational rehabilitation counselors for state and federal agencies, and college counselors and advisors. We recognize that invisible disabilities and limitations exist in individuals all around us and hope that, in the spirit of full inclusion and equity, this book will reach the broader audience of all study-abroad connected faculty and professionals.

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Mathematics and Disabilities Handbook: A Guide to Helping Students with SLD, ADHD,TBI, PTS, AS, LI, and ID -- eBook (Academic Success Press, 2022) 
By Paul Nolting, Ph.D. and Contributing Authors (2022)

The handbook is intended for directors of disabilities service and learning resource centers, department chairs, math instructors, counselors and deans, and persons who are teaching, tutoring, or advising students with disabilities. The handbook has the most up-to-date information on how disabilities affect math learning, additional disability areas, new educational accommodations, math study skills, new testing accommodations along with substitution processes. There are separate chapters for Disabilities Resource Offices and Math Department along with discussing COVID Impact and direct links to new resources, current OCR Letters, and Resolution Agreements. Just select the chapter(s) you want to read.

The chapters are:

• Introduction: A Knowledge Base for Understanding Disabilities
• Determining the Existence of a Specific Learning Disability and the Effects on Math Learning
• Determining the Existence of Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Effects on Math Learning
• Determining the Existence of a Traumatic Brain Injury, Post Traumatic Stress, and the Effects on Math Learning
• Autism Spectrum and the Effects on Math Learning
• Language Impairments and the Effects on Math Learning
• Intellectual Disability and the Effects on Math Learning
• Improving Math Learning Strategies with Educational Accommodations Based on Processing Deficits
• Math Testing Accommodations Based on Processing Deficits, Language Impairment, TBI, PTS, and Autism
• Math Department and Learning Assistance Center Strategies
• Disability Resource Office Improving Mathematics Success
• Determining Appropriate Course Substitutions and Procedures
• Landmark Office of Civil Rights Decisions, Course Substitution Cases, and Cases Studies for Student Accommodations

The handbook also has checklists for documentation, resource sheets on how the WAIS‐IV and WJ IV COG Cognitive Ability factors influence math achievement, and which factors are most significant to math learning and course substitutions. The Stages of Memory Sheets sheet explains how processing deficits affect math learning based and where learning may break down based on their disability. There is also a discussion about a possible math gene. Additionally, each chapter has reference Web sites. This digital copy can only be shared within your campus.

**eBook access information will be e-mailed or mailed to customers subsequent to credit card payment or PO.

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Becoming Self-Determined: Practical Strategies for a Changing World
Edited by: Sharon Field, Ed.D. and David R. Parker, Ph.D. (2021)

In 2020, the whole world changed.  A global pandemic, deeply needed efforts to create greater social justice, and political unrest dominated headlines and each of our lives.  Higher education was required to profoundly restructure itself in response to these unprecedented events and to promote safety as the highest priority.  Remote learning became the norm overnight.  This transformation on college campuses continues, creating both challenges and opportunities for students and their families, faculty and staff. An emphasis on self-determination for students and all members of the higher education community is more important now than ever as we struggle to create a new system that is more responsive to key stakeholders’ needs.

This monograph provides practical self-determination strategies and timely resources for all students (including those with disabilities) that are specifically geared toward our new emphasis on remote instruction, social justice and succeeding while enduring collective stress. It builds on our earlier book, Becoming Self-Determined: Creating Thoughtful Learners in a Standards-Based, Admissions-Frenzied Culture, which provides a more detailed overview and general strategies for helping college students be more autonomous and successful as they pursue their goals in personally meaningful ways.

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Becoming Self-Determined: Creating Thoughtful Learners in a Standards-Driven, Admissions-Frenzied Culture
Edited by: Sharon Field, Ed.D. and David R. Parker, Ph.D. (Editors)

Although the current generation of U.S. undergraduates may have higher test scores, more A.P. credits, and longer lists of extracurricular activities than students at any other time in history, too many of these bright young people are coming to campus without a strong sense of who they are and what they want out of life. Becoming Self-Determined provides research-based but practical strategies that college administrators, faculty, learning center staff, counseling/student health clinicians, disability services staff, and residential life staff can use to help students gain more from their college education. It can also help stressed-out parents and students get off the treadmill and view challenges and supports in college as a meaningful part of an education for life.

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Testing Accommodations Reference Manual
By Trisha Tonge Barefield, Sarah Kesler, and Karen Kalivoda (2016)

This manual is an update to Exam Accommodations, one of AHEAD's best-selling publications. It has been updated and revised, and is an important addition to disability service professionals' libraries. Reflecting on best practices in disability services, this essential reference provides detailed information regarding issues related to testing accommodations at the postsecondary level. New and revised sections include:

• Assistive technology
• Academic honesty
• Administering online exams
• Emergency Preparedness

Sample forms, letters, and policies are included to assist you in your own administration of testing for students with disabilities.

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Winning at Math: Your Guide to Learning Mathematics Through Successful Study Skills (6th Edition)
By Paul Nolting, Ph.D., Learning Specialist (2014)

The Winning at Math concise edition contains the same essential study skills from the original Winning at Math text. In this version, however, Dr. Nolting has carefully edited the text to help students develop these skills at a much faster pace. This new version is a perfect guidebook for math students and is fit for personal and classroom use, including traditional math courses, study skills courses, freshman seminar courses, and math lab courses.

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Interpreting Diagnostic Assessments for Adolescents and Adults with Learning Disabilities (Second Edition)
By Janet Medina (2011)

Disability Services personnel often find themselves encountering a wide range of psycho-educational records submitted by students to document their learning disabilities. This updated “field guide” to diagnostic assessment explains the rationale and current state of LD evaluation, introduces you to each of the common evaluation tools and what they test, and outlines the principles behind assessment. The author, on the faculty of McDaniel College who has an extensive career in disability, clearly facilitates your understanding of the material presented and how it applies to your work.  Foundational information for those newer to the field, and a concise reference manual for seasoned professionals, this book is an essential for the DS bookshelf.

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