Understanding and Facilitating Accommodations

There is a lot of flexibility that comes with higher education instruction. Your students are young adults who are learning to individually manage the various demands of life, often for the first time without parents or other adults helping or telling them what to prioritize. In your courses, you have an opportunity to support students with empathy and compassion when they ask for an accommodation. This module is designed to help faculty recognize common misconceptions of accommodations, and introduce accommodations you can implement in your course.

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Course Details

Learning Objectives

Full Course

Duration: 13 minutes

Language: EN

Althea Woodruff

Author

Dr. Althea Woodruff coordinates the Well-Being in Learning Environments (aka, Texas Well-being) program at the Longhorn Wellness Center (LWC) at The University of Texas at Austin. Through this program, Dr. Woodruff collaborates with faculty to embed well-being practices in their classrooms, office hours, and other learning contexts. She also works as a program coordinator in UT’s Meadows Center for Preventing Educational Risk and teaches courses as a lecturer in the College of Education. Before working at the LWC, Dr. Woodruff worked as a researcher, professional development creator, and technical assistance provider at the Meadows Center and has also worked as a district-level administrator in a school district and as a consultant supporting state-, district-, and campus-level literacy initiatives.

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