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Three Common Accommodation Dilemmas and How to Address Them

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Disability professionals often deal with complex situations regarding access and accommodations. This session will briefly explore three particular challenges and provide guidance and dialog among participants about addressing these challenges. 

  1.  Gaining early access to instructional materials for alt format and AT support
  2.  Access and accommodations for graduate students
  3.  Course Policy Accommodations - fundamental alteration and undue burden questions

Come prepared to engage in discussions with your peers to creatively address these issues!

Did you miss the live webinar? You can now purchase a recording of this webinar and others as they become available from the Fall 2022 Recorded Webinar Series.

Description

Disability professionals often deal with complex situations regarding access and accommodations. This session will briefly explore three particular challenges and provide guidance and dialog among participants about addressing these challenges. 

  1.  Gaining early access to instructional materials for alt format and AT support
  2.  Access and accommodations for graduate students
  3.  Course Policy Accommodations - fundamental alteration and undue burden questions

Come prepared to engage in discussions with your peers to creatively address these issues!

Did you miss the live webinar? You can now purchase a recording of this webinar and others as they become available from the Fall 2022 Recorded Webinar Series.

Contributors

  • Tom Thompson

    Tom Thompson entered the field of Disability Resources in Higher Education in 1980, taking a position at William R. Harper College, a large suburban community college outside of Chicago. His career at Harper College spanned 30.5 years, including service as the ADA Coordinator for the last 12 years of his tenure along with remaining as the Director. Starting in 1988, Tom began consulting with other higher education institutions and since retiring in 2010, consulting work has expanded greatly. He has served as an Interim Director twice, for Northern Illinois University and for California State University, Fullerton. Since 2018, he has had four major innovation contracts with institutions in Utah, New Mexico, and California. He has also served as an External Evaluator for AHEAD and NASPA, completing over 35 evaluations at private liberal arts colleges, community colleges, multi-campus systems, one online university and at several four-year universities. Tom authored a chapter in the NASPA publication, “Beyond the ADA…” on students with intellectual disabilities in higher education and is authoring and co-editing a chapter on External Evaluations in an upcoming AHEAD publication. He has also written articles for Disability Compliance in Higher Education and serves on their editorial board. He is working on a text/resource about the field of Disability Resources and Services.

October 17, 2022
Mon 2:00 PM EDT

Duration 1H 30M

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