The accommodation process is essential in ensuring students with disabilities have equal access to education. It involves identifying the student's needs and then getting with disability services to implement accommodations that enable equal participation. I plan to apply this by helping ensure that students have the support they need and understanding how to facilitate effective communication between students, faculty, and support services.
Each disability is different to some extent even if two students are blind or deaf their level of deafness or how they learned to communicate with the disability is different and shouldn’t be seen as exactly the same.
Providing accommodation to a student with disabilities is an institutional responsibility. Make sure our institutions are following this practice
Understanding the needs of people with disabilities allows for more appropriate accommodation and equal access. Strategies for accommodation should be individualized as a one size fits all is not the answer. I had never heard of Universal Design and it was interesting to learn about.
Universal Design is interesting to me and was a new nomenclature to something I was already familiar with.
In this section I learned that accommodations are not meant to give a student an advantage over other students. They are meant to ensure that they have what they need to be equal with the other students. ADA is not intended to allow students to do whatever they want just because they are disabled. Irrelevant accommodation requests can be denied if they are not needed to mitigate their access issues.
Asking up front and transparent questions regarding whether a student or potential student need accommodations ensures equal access for all to thrive and learn. Universal design strives for equal inclusion in everyday life for all people, including those with disabilities. As admissions, we play a key role in helping Ogle meet compliance ensuring fairness and equality benefits everyone.
The failure to provide accommodations does not result in discrimination; it is the failure to provide equal access that is discriminating. Distinguishing between access and success will be the challenge for me.
While it is interesting to hear the legal aspects of the issues, a lot of it is common sense. I have had students of all types in many different programs. Many didn't want the extra assistance because they didn't want to feel pitied. I get that, and I respected it. It made the student feel better for it. Some that needed help, we gave it. It wasn't a blanket issues that applied to everyone and needs to be handled individually.
The first step in reviewing how appropriately your office, as a whole, is responding to its mandate for access under the ADA is to clarify what opportunity/program(s) you are providing.
Its important to have accommodations
Universal design concepts.
Please remember that this can be said "if anyone planning to attend has a disability and will need some accommodation in order to fully participate in these activities, please contact _______."
This section has elucidated the accommodation process within higher education and presented realistic examples to demystify the concept of reasonable accommodations. Furthermore, it has clarified the roles various stakeholders play in the effective implementation of accommodation practices in higher learning institutions, ensuring that these practices are equitable and reasonable, and upheld consistently day to day.
It was interesting to learn about Universal Design.
the less people with their hands in the pot the more effective accommodations become.
The institution needs to assure that accommodations and services provided are access-oriented, rather than success-oriented.
Understanding accommodations are the pathway for learners with disabilities however,
Disability service providers often work with the to learning on how best to support students with disabilities in college, there is no technique beyond the attitude.
