Resources for Working With Students With Disabilities

By federal law, students with disabilities must be given "substantially equivalent ease of access" to º£½ÇÉçÇø’s programs and services (including courses and course material) as is had by any other student. At º£½ÇÉçÇø, students currently use a wide variety of programs to access courses and course material such as screen readers, text to speech software, Braille, audio recordings, tactile diagrams, scribes, note-takers and closed captioning. Read and Write, a literacy software program, is installed on all public computers in the library and all students with a º£½ÇÉçÇø email address can download it free onto their personal computers. Additionally, all members of the º£½ÇÉçÇø community have access to a Document Converter, which can be found on the Access Services website.

The following strategies and information were prepared by DO-IT, University of Washington. This material provides information to help faculty understand the most prevalent disabilities and offers important strategies that faculty can implement in classrooms to ensure access to a course.

• Students with Attention Deficit
• Students with Autism
• Students with Blindness
• Students who are Deaf or Hard of Hearing
• Students with Health Impairments
• Students with Learning Disabilities
• Students with Low Vision
• Students with Mobility Impairments
• Students with Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
• Students with Psychiatric Impairments