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Working Together: Faculty and Students
with Disabilities
John Pedraza
Disability Resource Coordinator for Employees
120 Bessey Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
517 432-4240
Elaine High
Learning Disabilities and ADHD Specialist
120 Bessey Hall
East Lansing, MI 48824
517 432-2466
Michigan State University Resource Center for Persons with Disabilities, DO-IT Prof and North Central Michigan College.
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Agenda:Welcome and IntroductionsLegal ResponsibilitiesVideoAccommodations and SolutionsTest Time!Campus ResourcesCase StudiesVeronika’s ActivityQ & A
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The Americans with Disabilities Act
No otherwise qualified individual with a disability shall, solely by reason of such disability, be excluded from participation in or be denied the benefits of the services, programs, or activities of a public entity, or be subjected to discrimination by any such entity.
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Who is a Person with a Disability?
Anyone with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activitiesAnyone with a record of such an impairment
Anyone who is regarded as having such an impairmentIndividuals associated with persons with disabilities (i.e. spouse, child, etc.)
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Definition of Disability
Nature of impairmentDuration of impairmentLimitations of major life activities
Substantially limitingWhat is the evidenceUnable to work in broad range of jobs or class of jobs
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Major Life Activities
BreathingSleepingSeeingHearingWorkingTaking care of Oneself
ProcreationStoopingBendingWalkingLearning
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Otherwise Qualified
A person must be able to meet the technical and academic qualifications for entry into the school, program, or activity in order to be considered otherwise qualified.
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Otherwise Qualified ContinuedA qualified individual with a disability is one who meets the skill, experience, education, and other job-related requirements of a position held or desired and who, with or without reasonable accommodation, can perform the essential functions of a job.
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Substantial Impairment
Impairment is substantial when the limitation for individual is greater than that experienced in the general population.
Example: Experience pain after walking a mile which prohibits individual from doing other activities (debilitating)Example: Unable to lift 10 pounds without significant pain
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Examples of DisabilitiesSpinal cord injuriesLoss of limbsMultiple sclerosisMuscular DystrophyCerebral PalsyHearing ImpairmentsVisual Impairments
Speech ImpairmentsSpecific Learning DisabilitiesHead InjuriesPsychiatric DisordersDiabetesCancerAIDS
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With or Without Reasonable Accommodation
Reasonable modifications to rules, policies or practicesRemoval of architectural, communication or transportation barriersProvision of auxiliary aids and servicesModification or adjustment to a job, the work environment, or the way things usually are doneMaking existing facilities used by employees readily accessible to and usable by individuals with disabilities
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Reasonable
Must be effective – producing the intended or expected effect
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Hearing Impairments
Interpreters, real-time captions, FM systems, note-takersFace student when speakingWritten directions, assignments, lab instructionsVisual aids, visual warning systemsRepeat questions and statements from othersElectronic mail for communicating
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Psychiatric Disabilities
Changes in schedules, instructions, job tasks or other procedures and ways of interacting with the employee or studentKnow the person’s functional limitations and the symptoms of the illnesses and the medications
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Low VisionLarge print handouts, signs, equipment labelsTV monitor connected to microscope to enlarge imagesDirections, notices, assignments in electronic formatComputers with enlarged screen imagesSeating where the lighting is best
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Blindness
Audio-tape, Braille, electronic notes, handouts, textsDescribe visual aidsRaised-line drawings and tactile models of graphic materialsComputers with optical character readers, voice activated computers, voice output, Braille keyboards and printers
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Mobility ImpairmentsGroup assignments, note-takers/scribes, lab assistantsExtra exam time, alternative testing arrangementsClassrooms, meetings, labs, field trips in accessible locationsAdjustable tables, equipment located within reachMaterials in electronic formatsComputers with special input devices (e.g., voice, alternative keyboards)
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Health Impairments
Note-takers, audio-taped class sessionsFlexible attendance requirementsExtra exam time, alternative testing arrangementsAssignments in electronic formatsElectronic mail
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Specific Learning Disabilities
Note-takers and/or audio taped class sessionsExtra exam time; alternative testing arrangementsVisual, aural, and tactile demonstrations incorporated into instructionCourse and lecture outlinesSpelling checkers and grammar checkers
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Student Obligations
Self identify that he or she has a disabilityIndicate the need for accommodationProvide appropriate documentation at the student’s expense to establish the existence of the disability and the need for accommodation
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Institutional ObligationsProvide reasonable accommodations for the student’s known disabilitiesAfford student equal opportunity to participate in programs, activities and services (including extracurricular activities)
May not discriminate based on disabilityProvide auxiliary aids and services
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HEATH Resource Center
National survey results on freshmen with disabilities:
One in 11 first-time, full-time freshmen entering college in 1988 self-reported a disability.This translates to about 9 percent of the total, or about 154,520 students who reported disabilities.
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In 1998, freshmen who self-reported disabilities were more likely than their peers to:
Be maleBe 20 years or olderHave chosen a particular college because it offered a special program or because of advice from counselors/teachersRate themselves lower in self-esteem, emotional health, & academic or physical ability
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What changes have occurred in the past few years?
Percentage of freshmen reporting disabilities remained stable at 9 percent between 1991 and 1998Students with learning disabilities continued to be the fastest growing group (25% to 41%)Higher proportions of students with disabilities were enrolling in four-year colleges and universities in 1998
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1. True or False?1. True or False? You should change You should change
your vocabulary your vocabulary when speaking to a when speaking to a person with a person with a disability. Use disability. Use words like "when words like "when you roll in the you roll in the room..." to someone room..." to someone who uses a who uses a wheelchair.wheelchair.
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2.2. True or False?True or False?One should One should
ask the ask the companion of companion of
the person the person with a with a
disability disability what they what they will need.will need.
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3. True or 3. True or False?False?You should You should
always pet a always pet a guide dog to guide dog to
show that show that you intend no you intend no
harm to its harm to its master.master.
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4. True 4. True or or False?False?
The majority The majority of persons of persons
who are deaf who are deaf are better lip are better lip readers than readers than
hearing hearing people.people.
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5. True or 5. True or False?False?Persons who Persons who
are deaf and are deaf and use American use American
Sign Sign Language Language (ASL) are (ASL) are unable to unable to
speak.speak.
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6. True or False?6. True or False?American Sign American Sign
Language Language (ASL) is (ASL) is English English
conveyed conveyed through signs.through signs.
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7. True or False?7. True or False?Sign Sign
language language is is
universal.universal.
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8. True or 8. True or False?False?A person
can be cured of a learning
disability.
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Please read Please read the the following following aloud.aloud.
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