Remove 2020 Remove Disability Services Remove Higher Education
article thumbnail

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). Planning for Higher Education , 47 (1), 3. link] safety/disability-services/differences.aspx DO-IT.

article thumbnail

How Technology Can Expand Support for Students with a Disability

Symplicity

Roughly 20 percent of students enrolled in higher education have reported having a disability, according to the most recent federal data. This means there is a significant portion of college students that have a form of disability whether visible or otherwise. While the U.S.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Huddled around a table in the Georgetown University Alumni House, roughly two dozen academics convened last week to address two of the most persistent challenges in higher education: improving student outcomes and lowering the cost of a bachelor’s degree. Those losses led her to rethink the program’s curriculum.

article thumbnail

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

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

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

Teaching Matters Academic Communities

The latter always supersedes in an overly rationalist ableist higher education setting indicating the ‘endemic’ nature of ableist practices that shape academia ( Brown and Leigh, 2018 ). Ableism in academia: where are the disabled and ill academics? Disability & society , 33 , 985-989. References Bennett, C.

Medical 52
article thumbnail

Mini-series: Linking learning and teaching with mental health and wellbeing

Teaching Matters Academic Support

Increasing numbers of students are disclosing to us, prior to arrival, that they have long-term mental health conditions, and so one element of our strategy is to ensure that our support services are sufficiently resourced to meet the needs of students. All of these resources are for staff and students.