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Ensuring a QualityHigher Education for AllStudentsGeorgia Gwinnett College - Centerfor Teaching Excellence Presentation
Dr. Tess Reid November 3, 2011
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TRIVIA TIME! True or False?
1. I must provide some type of identified service tostudents with documented and suspectedexceptionalities.
2. I can be personally sued for failing to providedocumented accommodations for students withdocumented exceptionalities.
3. There is not anything I really have to do whenprovided an accommodation letter from a student,other than reading it.
4. A complaint can be filed against me with theOffice of Civil Rights if I fail to teach in the way anaccommodation letter states.
5. Because GGC receives financial aid, I am required
to follow the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
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Goals of the Presentation
Identify your own needs as faculty to provideappropriate accommodations and modifications(content, physical access, required activities, etc) tostudents with exceptionalities;
Identify key elements and barriers students withexceptionalities come to college with; Learning Disabilities High Functioning Autism Psychological Disorders
Identify your responsibilities as faculty to ensurecompliance with Federal Laws related to students withexceptionalities or suspected exceptionality,
Review and use resources available to faculty in support
of students with exceptionalities and struggling students.
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Learning Exceptionalities & Problems
Learning exceptionalities is the most prevalentdisability served in K-12 schools and colleges.
Exceptionalities/Problems with learning can includeone or more of the following; Information Processing Auditory, Visual or both Language Processing Expressive and Receptive
Dyslexia A developmental reading disorder Dysgraphia A developmental writing disorder Dyscalculia A developmental and situational math
disorder Dyslexia is often concomitant with Dysgraphia
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High Functioning Autism:Aspergers
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Psychological Disorders
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Psychological Disorders Defined
Anxiety Disorders (PTSD, Social Phobia)
Mood Disorders (Bipolar, Major Depression)
Eating Disorders (Body Dysmoprhic Disorder)
Psychotic Disorders (Schizophrenia)
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
(typically documented as Other Health Impaired OHI)
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Psychological Disorders
17.5 million university students in the US 8.5 % sought counseling through their schoolcenter with an additional 29% seeing mentalhealth professionals outside the school.
Visits to university counseling centers haveincreased by over 40% between 1995 and 2008 In 1995, 9% of students seen at counseling
centers were taking psychiatric medications. In
2008, this number increased to 24% In 2008, 7.5% of college students had suchserious impairments that they could not functionin college settings without extensivepsychiatric/psychological support.
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Student Self Report: PsychologicalDisorders 13% reported symptoms of significant anxiety
18% reported symptoms of depression
25% reported problems with their studies as aresult of sleep problems
10% has seriously considered suicide in the past
year 1.9% had a suicide attempt in the past year
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Support for Students withExceptionalities and Struggling Students Extended time on exams
Exams in separate location
Preferential seating (near exit)
Identify safe locations for student to deescalate
Identify tolerable compulsions Avoid unnecessary exposures to triggering
stimuli
Provide alternative assignments to avoidtriggering past traumas
If test anxiety major hurdle, consider classeswhere most of grade is based on papers, projects
done outside of class
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Support for Students withExceptionalities and Struggling Students Connect academics with interests
Allow limited choices if student is indecisive Establish the hierarchy of who student should
contact if suicidal Acknowledge students feelings rather than arguing
over feelings Provide safe location to regroup if tearful Peer note taker in class Educate student about disorder
Avoid certain classes that may trigger or worseneating disorder symptoms (e.g. a nutrition class) Assist student when thinking through appropriate
majors
Ensure student has comfortable location to eat
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Support for Students withExceptionalities and Struggling Students Provide written and verbal information
Quiet, non-distracting environment for testtaking
Assist student with deadlines assignments due
in small chunks (scaffolding major/largeprojects
Communicate with all students professors
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Universal Design for Learning
What is Universal Design for Learning (UdL)?
Sample College Algebra lesson plan
Support for UdL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDvKnY0g6e4http://usablealgebra.landmark.edu/designing-evaluating-resources/sample-lesson-plan-exponents/http://lessonbuilder.cast.org/http://lessonbuilder.cast.org/http://lessonbuilder.cast.org/http://usablealgebra.landmark.edu/designing-evaluating-resources/sample-lesson-plan-exponents/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDvKnY0g6e4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDvKnY0g6e4http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDvKnY0g6e4 -
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Take Away: EQUAL RIGHTS Universal Design for Learning can support ALL students.
GGC students who report an exceptionality are typicallythose with psychological, learning and Autism disorders.
GGC faculty have a legal obligation to provide support tostudents with exceptionalities as mandated in theAmericans with Disabilities Act, section 504.
ALL GGC faculty are legally required to provideaccommodations and modifications to students withregistered and documented exceptionalities, are ethicallyand morally responsible for providing support tostudents who are struggling and/or suspected of anexceptionality.
A Civil Rights Violation claim can be filed by a studentfor failure to provide documented accommodations andmodifications.
GGC faculty can be personally sued for failure to providedocumented accommodations and/or modifications
under Section
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Sources
Academic Challenges in Living with Bipolar Disorderhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOwEBvNd-EY
ADA One Physical Accessibility Resources for Higher Educationhttp://ada-one.com/articles-tips/access-higher-ed/
Characteristics ofAspergers Video:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7lQa3q_OAk&feature=related
Dansie, Kim. 2011.Psychiatric Disorders in College Students. PPT.
F.A.T. City: Visual Processing Learning Exceptionality video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4f4rX0XEBA&feature=related
Office of Civil Rights http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/
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