Practical Strategies for Accommodations

As colleges and universities aim to make our campuses more accessible to students with disabilities, we must also consider how we can make our classrooms accessible. Proactively designing your courses to be accessible reduces the amount of work needed to support a student with a disability in your course. Sometimes, however, supportive teaching practices won’t meet all your students’ needs. In these instances, students with disabilities will need specific accommodations to use and interact with the various parts of your course. This module will help you understand the accommodation process for students and provide best practices to treat students with disabilities enrolled in your courses with respect.

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As colleges and universities aim to make our campuses more accessible to students with disabilities, we must also consider how we can make our classrooms accessible. Proactively designing your courses to be accessible reduces the amount of work needed to support a student with a disability in your course. Sometimes, however, supportive teaching practices won’t meet all your students’ needs. In these instances, students with disabilities will need specific accommodations to use and interact with the various parts of your course. This module will help you understand the accommodation process for students and provide best practices to treat students with disabilities enrolled in your courses with respect.

Duration: 30 minutes

Language: EN

Melanie Eley

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Melanie Eley is Web Accessibility Coordinator at the University of North Carolina Greensboro where she uses her expertise to develop collaborative campus efforts to make course content and instructional spaces (both virtual and physical) accessible for all users. She has had success in the areas of policy development, educational training and resources, and programming. She also maintains UNC Greensboro's Accessibility Resources website and leads the institution's Accessibility Fellows and the initiatives that derive from this program’s charge. Melanie has a special interest in accessibility-related pedagogies, and specifically in UDL, as it has the capacity to open learning opportunities for all students, including those with disabilities.

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