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Individualized Interactive Accommodation and Fundamental Alteration Determinations: Law, Implementation, and Policy

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This two-hour presentation will address the law and best practices for implementation of two essential processes:

  • the individualized interactive communication process for determining appropriate accommodations
  • the process for determining whether authorization of an accommodation would entail a fundamental alteration.
This webinar will address:
  • What is the legal basis for requiring use of these processes?
  • Must each of these processes be used in every instance where an accommodation is requested or denied?
  • What do OCR and court decisions tell us about when each process is required?
  • When must a school implement these processes and what are the best ways to do so?
  • What are the elements of a compliant process?
  • When should faculty be involved in these processes?
  • What can be done in advance to prepare for when these processes must be used?
  • Are there any model policies available to consider for adoption?
This webinar will be two hours long so that plenty of time for Q&A can be provided.

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Description

This two-hour presentation will address the law and best practices for implementation of two essential processes:

  • the individualized interactive communication process for determining appropriate accommodations
  • the process for determining whether authorization of an accommodation would entail a fundamental alteration.
This webinar will address:
  • What is the legal basis for requiring use of these processes?
  • Must each of these processes be used in every instance where an accommodation is requested or denied?
  • What do OCR and court decisions tell us about when each process is required?
  • When must a school implement these processes and what are the best ways to do so?
  • What are the elements of a compliant process?
  • When should faculty be involved in these processes?
  • What can be done in advance to prepare for when these processes must be used?
  • Are there any model policies available to consider for adoption?
This webinar will be two hours long so that plenty of time for Q&A can be provided.

Contributors

  • Jamie Axelrod

    Jamie Axelrod, M.S. is the Director of Disability Resources at Northern Arizona University and a past-president of AHEAD. Jamie presents regularly on topics related to disability access and higher education, having expertise in disability law and policy, communication and information technology (ICT) access, and the reasonable accommodation process. Jamie is a respected contributor to professional listservs, having received the Fink-Ryan Award for the quality of his guidance, and a go-to consultant for complex issues. He has worked for the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s athletic department, as a mental health therapist, and for Protection and Advocacy Systems, Inc., a disability rights advocacy law firm where he served as an advocate for individuals with disabilities who were claiming that their civil rights had been violated. Jamie has served as co-chair of Northern Arizona University’s Commission on Disability Access and Design and on AHEAD’s Board of Directors.

  • Paul Grossman

    Paul Grossman, J.D. served as a civil rights attorney for the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR), serving as its Chief Regional Attorney in San Francisco for 30 years. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Disability Law at Hasting College of Law, University of California, and a member of the AHEAD Board of Directors, the Public Policy Committee of the Association for Children and Adults with AD/HD (CHADD), and the Disability Rights Advocates (DRA) Expert Advisory Board. Dr. Grossman has worked on every type of education discrimination and investigated, written decisions, and settled hundreds of disability discrimination cases, often developing new approaches to protecting students with disabilities. He is the coauthor of The Law of Disability Discrimination (8th Edition) and its companion publication, Law of Disability Discrimination Handbook: Statues and Regulatory Guidance.

October 10, 2022
Mon 2:00 PM EDT

Duration 2H 0M

This live web event has ended.

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