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

The Scholarly Teacher

Disorders considered a part of the umbrella of ASD according to the DSM-5 include: Asperger’s Disorder, Autistic Disorder, and pervasive developmental disorder, not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS) (Hoffman, 2020). link] safety/disability-services/differences.aspx DO-IT. Unpublished manuscript]. Differences between HS and college.

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How Technology Can Expand Support for Students with a Disability

Symplicity

With this concern, as Higher Education Today wrote in 2020 means that “shaping the culture of higher education institutions is one of the most important steps to achieving the goal of disability-diversity and inclusion.”

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Temple gets $11 million gift for students with disabilities

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The money will be targeted at students with physical disabilities at a university known for its strong track record in providing disability services. ” The number of students with disabilities at Temple grew from 50 in 1977 to nearly 3,500 in 2020, according to Snyder. Image: A $10.9

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Top ten Teaching Matters posts of 2021

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

And this year, two interesting observations emerged: In 2021, the ten most read posts were entries dating from previous years, ranging from 2016 to 2020. “Lessons Learned: Digital Skills in 2020 and beyond” : [link] Readers seem to enjoy reflective pieces, that ‘take the pulse’ of accomplishments and lessons learned.

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Can the three-year bachelor's degree become a reality?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Indiana University of Pennsylvania decided to explore three-year degrees for an entirely different reason: the loss of faculty members to retrenchments and retirements, said Lori Lombard, a professor and chair of the Department of Communication Disorders, Special Education and Disability Services. And there are some ripples.

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Arriving at the University of Edinburgh: Tips from the Study Abroad team

Teaching Matters Academic Support

For welfare support, we offer the Student Counselling Service , a Personal Tutor and Student Support Office, the Disability Service and the Chaplaincy Centre (you are welcome to use this service if you are of any or no religion!). Jun 11, 2020

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Subtitling pilot project at Moray House: Review and reflections

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Secondly, we worked with Student Disability Services to help identify courses where there were students with a schedule who we may not have been aware of. Feb 5, 2020 Firstly, there were courses we already knew about where students were enrolled with a subtitling adjustment on their schedule.