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Change is in the Air: Partnering with Disability Services to Make Life Easier

Change is in the Air: Partnering with Disability Services to Make Life Easier. Disability Services B 209 Tomma Lee Furst Kym Kleinsmith Lori Corrigan. Disability Services needs your help DS is due for program evaluation Not being done formally We still want to grow and change

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Change is in the Air: Partnering with Disability Services to Make Life Easier

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  1. Change is in the Air: Partnering with Disability Services to Make Life Easier

  2. Disability ServicesB 209Tomma Lee FurstKym KleinsmithLori Corrigan

  3. Disability Services needs your help DS is due for program evaluation • Not being done formally • We still want to grow and change DS Mission Statement (partial) • 4. Provide leadership to the campus community in the area of disability services. • 5. Communicate with the campus community to provide information and resources about disability-related issues and compliance.

  4. Disability Services needs your help DS Mission Statement • Without an “official” program review, we turn to you • How can we partner to follow our mission, work more efficiently, help you and help students?

  5. General Focus Today: • Partnership between faculty/staff and Disability Services. We need your input and value your voice. • Using technology to simplify communication (and our lives).

  6. Specific Topics Covered: • The Disability Services page on website • Faculty • Accommodation forms—going electronic • Delivering tests to DS electronically • Online tests and extending time for individual students • Staff (SA/EM) • Library • College-wide • Disability Services newsletter • Disability Services Angel page • Pregnancy issues • Other?

  7. #1: Disability Services Page on RACC’s Website Let’s look at: • What information/resources are there? • What information/resources should be added? http://www.racc.edu/StudentLife/Services/DisabilityServices/default.aspx

  8. #2: Faculty Accommodation Forms: • Current accommodation form • Student hands it to you • You sign and date receipt • You keep the form

  9. #2: Faculty Change is coming: Electronic accommodation forms • Sent to your email • Sent with email “receipt” required • No student handing you form • Advantages and disadvantages?

  10. #2: Faculty • Delivering tests to DS staff for students who get extra time • Current method—hand delivery

  11. #2: Faculty Change is coming: Electronic delivery of tests • By email (MS Word or PDF) • We could print and file test • May need it early; scan to Kurzweil • Our copy may not match your copy when printed

  12. #2: Faculty Extending time for tests may become something you do more often. • Angel • My Math Lab • Mastering __________ • IFT 110 (SNAP) • Other places where you need to extend time?

  13. #2: Faculty Extending time for tests may become something you do more often. Can we simplify: Getting your password for tests? Knowing if you change your password? Assuring test will be open when student arrives in B 209? Contacting you for help in the moment?

  14. #3: Staff (SA/EM) You have a copy of yellow step-by-step info sheet for students with disabilities. • Have you used this? What else do you need? How can we help you interact with students with disabilities?

  15. #4: Library Change is coming: We’d like to install Kurzweil on at least one computer in the library. Kurzweil is text-to-speech software. How else can we help you work with students with disabilities?

  16. #5: College-wide partnership DS Newsletter Sent via email, once per semester. Take a look:

  17. #5: College-wide partnership About the DS newsletter: • Have you read it? • What format would be easiest to read? • What is MOST relevant or helpful info to include? • What is LEAST relevant info to include?

  18. #5:College-wide partnership Consider a DS Angel page: • Are you on Angel overload? • Would a DS Angel page get lost among the others? • Would you use it? • If you used it: • What information should be there? • Would a discussion board be useful? • Would you read additional articles?

  19. #5:College-wide partnership Students and pregnancy issues • Title IX issue • No discrimination based on pregnancy alone • Pregnancy and medical issues • Documentation housed in DS

  20. #6: How else can we help make your life easier (as you work with students with disabilities)? Your suggestions for us: What resources do you need?

  21. Thank you for your input. Your voice is important to us. Please complete the brief eval form. Feel free to suggest other topics of interest.

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