As a parent of a child with disabilities, I can appreciate both laws. While my child has a mobility disability, navigating through all of it can be challenging. It is important not to judge and have perceptions of students with any disability. The main point I learned was that the laws provide access to equal opportunity. Providing accommodations to students to be full participants in an educational setting can be a rewarding experience.
Every situation must be dealt with on a case by case basis.
That the institution must follow the guide lines and laws to insure that people with disabilitys have the same learning advantages as those with no disabilitys but it is the responcability of the disabled to follow the proper proceedures to make sure that their disabilitys are known by the institution so that accomodations can be made in a reasonable amount of time.
I learned that emotional support animals were not included in the ADA definition of service animal.
Accomodations for disabilities must be made but not to such a degree that it gives the disabled student an advantage.
Accomodating students with disabilities has only evolved over the years. Technology and the use of asynchronous classes has allowed institutions to accomodate more students with disabilities.
Until this training, I would of had never realized how much information there is about this subject. This training will help me to be a better instructor. Being informed and knowledgeable about this subject is the goal.
Difference betweem accomodation and disability.
The student must take responsibility for requesting accomadations if needed. An emotional support animal is NOT a service animal. Despite appropriate accomadations if the student breaks a rule such as cheating on a test the student is subject to the same disipline as any other student.
It is important for us as educators to be aware of ones specific disability. Everyone deserves the chance to be succesful in their education. One thing Ihave learned in my own classroom is that if a student is having struggles with the materail and their is another student who is bilingual. See if the other student is willing to help their classmate. I have seen a growth in the student who was struggling.
GWard
Accommodations need to be made for students with disabilities, however, they are still held to the same standards of other students. Accommodations are not made for cheating for example. Emotional support animals are not service animals and accomodations do not need to be made for those students. I have learned a lot from this module. Students that are ESL also do not need to be accommodated based solely on their inability to process the text and answers within the allotted time frame for taking a test. Accommodations are also based on a case by case basis, but they all need to be taken into proper consideration. Just because one accomodation Was allowed with a student, doesn't mean the same accomodation needs to be made for another student, as long as both cases were reviewed thoroughly.
Seth Soronnadi
Learned that "The most recent guidance from the Department of Justice makes it clear that an animal that provides only comfort or emotional support for its owner is an "emotional support animal," not a service animal. The presence of the cat would not be protected under the law. "
I found the Asperger's example very helpful in understanding that services can be given to help control a student's behavior, but that the student still needs to control the bhavior ultimately.
All disabilities must be accomodated in the educational institutions.
Keep current with any updates or revisions to ADA requierments
Acomadations for people with disibillitys is always evolving. It is our responsabillity to keep current with new develepments.
Momentary disabillitys are not considered disabillitys. Eagel acsess must be available to stuents with disibillitys
Any instatution with students getting federal grants must comly with the ADA reqierments
Reasonable acomidations and unreasonable acomadations are clealy identifiyed
I discovered that there are some nuances as applied to each case. If there is a need then there should be an accommodation; if there is no need, then the school is not obliged to provide accommodation. This is a reall big piece for me. Also, learning about unreasonable accommodation was a huge ey opener. Sometimes, the insitution might not have the budget to implement certain accommodations for her students with disabilities; the government is realized this.
The nunaces make us realize that students living with disbility want to be able to do their own due diligence and be responsible for themselves. They make it not because they were allowed to but because they were givien an opportunity to work for it.
