Faculty and Staff

Many of your students will be requesting academic accommodations for your courses. These accommodations might include extra time on tests, a note taker, enlarged handouts and readers. This information outlines the procedures that students follow to obtain their accommodations.


Testing Procedures and Accommodations

Faculty involvement - General information


  • Confidentiality and Disability Guidelines for Faculty
  • Syllabus Statement
  • Project and Paper extension policies
  • Language of Disability
  • Referal of a Student to the Offices of DisAbility Services
  • Understanding Asperger Syndrome: A professor's guide. (video)

Teaching Strategies


  • Learning Disability/ADD
  • Psychological Disorders
  • Chronic Medical Disorder
  • Mobility and Access
  • Blindness and Visual Impairments
  • Deafness and Hard of Hearing
  • A Quick-Guide to Understanding the Student with Asperger’s Syndrome

Teaching Resources

 

www.washington.edu/doit/Faculty
This website gives faculty and staff helpful tips on how to work with a disability.

 

www.eeonline.org
The website "Equality and Excellence in Higher Education" discusses how universal course design can increase access for all students including those with disabilities.

 

www.facultyware.uconn.edu/resources.cfm
Facultyware

 

www.ada.osu.edu/resources/fastfacts/
Fast Facts for Faculty

 

www.oln.org/ILT/ada/Fame
An online training curriculum for college faculty and administrators with an emphasis on teaching and accommodating students with a disability.

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