- NEW! Supporting Students with Long COVID in Higher Education:
A Workbook for Disability Service Providers
- An Open Letter to Parents of Students with Disabilities
About to Enter College
- When Faculty Are TOO Accommodating
- What IS a reasonable Accommodation?
- Color Card Exercise
- Katrina S.O.S. (Serve Our Students)
A Response from – and for – the Disability Services Community
Supporting Students with Long COVID in Higher Education:
A Workbook for Disability Service Providers
Released in October 2021, this 57-page workbook was created by a grassroots Task Force of disability service providers and higher education personnel to provide an introduction to the needs of a potentially growing population of students with disabilities in higher education – students with Long COVID. Available for download and sharing.
An Open Letter to Parents of Students with Disabilities About to Enter College
This letter, written by Jane Jarrow when her disabled daughter was about to begin her college career, has offered advice and solace to parents of incoming students for more than a decade. Available for download and sharing.
When Faculty Are TOO Accommodating
This essay is directed to teaching faculty, reminding them that policies and procedures surrounding accommodations or students with disabilities exist for a reason, and that it is in the best interest of everyone (students, faculty, institution) to follow the rules established at the institution. Available for download and sharing.
When Faculty Are Too Accommodating (pdf)
What IS a reasonable Accommodation?
This essay discusses the few reasons that are established that may rule out a suggested strategy for accommodation because it is not reasonable in the context of higher education or is inconsistent with the goal of equal access. If an accommodation is not unreasonable, then it should certainly be given significant consideration in response to a request for support. Available for download and sharing.
What IS a reasonable Accommodation (pdf)
Color Card Exercise
This practical demonstration was developed many years ago as a way of explaining to faculty why students with disabilities may need extended time in testing situations. Directions and a script for presenting the exercise are provided, along with templates for creating the visual aid to be used.
Katrina (S.O.S.) – Serve Our Students
A Response from – and for – the Disability Services Community
This resource was compiled with input from more than a dozen disability service providers in the weeks after Hurricane Katrina (2005). The intent was to provide information to service providers that might be useful in supporting students with disabilities who were displaced when their institutions were damaged by the storm, and were welcomed at campuses nationwide. These students arrived without documentation and without formal history of services. This resource was created as a place to start in interviewing and supporting these “visitors.”