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Perspectives on Serving Students with Chronic Illness

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Description

Students with a chronic illness disability experience many barriers that do not always match up with traditional disability accommodations; as a result such students often receive insufficient supports. Because their needs are not well understood by administrators, faculty, and other students, rejection, skepticism, and outright disbelief are also not uncommon. Assessing such students’ needs and ensuring that appropriate accommodations are available and carried out can be a challenge for disability specialists and others who work with these students. In this webinar, we will cover some common barriers and possible accommodations, and also consider how to interact with different viewpoints on campus regarding whether and how to implement them.

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Contributors

  • Lynn Fuentes

    Lynn Fuentes, MA, JD, PhD, CEO of Transformation Teaching, has designed and taught courses in chronic illness and conflict management at Prescott College and DePaul University, where she also founded and directed the Chronic Illness Initiative, a program to help students with chronic illness obtain a degree. She has been a long-term caregiver for severely ill family members and a volunteer board member for illness related organizations. She utilizes an integral approach to working with chronic illness in her six part course series and her recent book The Koan of Chronic Illness: An Integral Approach.

February 21, 2023
Tue 1:00 PM EST

Duration 1H 30M

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