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Success for College Students With Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Community College, Composition View

The Scholarly Teacher

The goal, stated in Harvey’s 2014 article (as cited in Clauson & McKnight, 2018), is to “identify the needs of students, provide them with direct support, and join them in their advocacy on campus.” link] safety/disability-services/differences.aspx DO-IT. link] Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 2022, March 31).

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Supporting academic community at the University of Edinburgh

Teaching Matters Academic Support

In 2018-19, Edinburgh had the largest Welcome Week Facebook group with over 5000 followers. Scholarships and Student Funding work with The Advice Place, Finance and ACE; the Careers Service works with Student Disability Service , and SRA. SRA also leads the University’s Social Media Community. The list goes on.

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Digital tools to support inclusion

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

Commercial software such as Dragon is also available (and might be offered through a University Disability Service), which can be trained to recognise your voice, so offers a better level of accuracy than Google Docs. Apr 10, 2018 If used in the web-browser Chrome you can also format the document with voice commands.

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An Ode to Academia in the post-pandemic era: Ableism, (un)Seen (dis)Abilities & access-ability of Online Teaching

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

And much similar to the broader neo-liberalised academia, it is highly competitive with an overemphasis on excellence in teaching and research activity ( Brown and Leigh, 2018 ). Ableism in academia: where are the disabled and ill academics? Disability & society , 33 , 985-989. References Bennett, C. Dyslexia and dentistry.

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Top ten Teaching Matters posts of 2021

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

” (August 2018): [link] Professor Stephen Lawrie’s post from 2018 garnered lots of views this year: could this be a consequence of the pandemic and the growing awareness around breaking the taboos relating to mental health? . 2. “CoDI Show: Why is mental illness so goddam controversial?”

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Spotlight on Practice Worth Sharing: Creating accessible materials

Teaching Matters Academic Support

2) Accessibility Regulations 2018 arrives on 22 nd September, whereby websites must publish an Accessibility Statement and meet the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.1 In addition to the all-encompassing work associated with hybrid teaching, a legislative deadline for The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No.