Great College Advice

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Learning Disabilities and College Success Should a student with a learning disability share that information on the college application? A 2007 survey from the Association on Higher Education and Disability reported that just 28% of students with learning disabilities graduate from college. This is a tough call.

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Eric Stoller

MAY 23, 2018

When eTextbooks include features such alternative text descriptions of visuals and content that can be used with assistive technology, students can start reading right away, without waiting for a disability services department to create a file. It’s just not possible. It makes group work and collaboration a much easier task. .

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

MAY 12, 2016

On a wider scale, the University offers specialist support in the form of the Counselling Service, Careers Service, and the Disability Service. My role within the Disability Service is as a Mental Health Mentor, a post I have held for 8 years.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

A more recent trend is consolidating student services related to academics or health and wellness into a larger office or building. Tutoring, library resources, academic advising and career services are smushed together, and counseling, disability services, medical centers and student care teams are sharing space more than ever before.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 25, 2023

She speculated that the findings show not that first-generation students are less likely to withdraw on the whole, but that they may benefit more from counseling services. “If we are to assume many first-gen students don’t have access to mental health [services] … perhaps it’s really working for them,” she said.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The money will be targeted at students with physical disabilities at a university known for its strong track record in providing disability services. Leshner said it was important to Zweig that the funds go toward supporting career-driven individuals with disabilities. Image: A $10.9

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University Business

MAY 31, 2023

These types of increases will in turn increase the need for services for students diagnosed with autism on college campuses as well. In addition to the WISE Clinic offerings, the Office of Disability Services offers what they refer to as a “chill room.”

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 31, 2019

Although our Student Disability Service offers autism awareness training, all too often the job of educating staff falls to individual autistic students, and we know anecdotally that many autistic people struggle to identify what adjustments would be helpful. I only feel better when I wake up the next day. The idea is simple.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

APRIL 4, 2019

Sharing attitudes and interests The Chaplaincy is a key service for community building activity. The International Student Advisory Service (now part of the Student Immigration Service) established the Refugee Advisory Group , which supports a global community perspective. SRA also leads the University’s Social Media Community.

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Dr. Al Solano

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

"Faculty should assume that the students who do have formal accommodations have jumped through so many hoops to get them, and these accommodations are not giving them a leg up. It's giving them a fair shot. That's something that I think a lot of faculty don't quite understand because they've never been through this process.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 7, 2023

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.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Andy’s remit includes responsibility for the Counselling Service, the Student Disability Service, the Chaplaincy and the University Pharmacy, and for relationships with the University Health Centre. A 2015 YouGov study found that 25% of university students in the UK suffer from mental health problems.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 23, 2024

The rest was left to the disability service, I think there was about five of them. Things like hoarding money is quite common in working-class students. Like I said, when I get my bursary from the university, it goes straight into my savings account because I’m like, Oh my God, I’m going to need this for a rainy day.”

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

APRIL 10, 2018

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. I particularly appreciate people tweeting from conferences as I can follow along even if I can’t be there in person.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JUNE 11, 2020

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!). If you feel you need it, please seek support as soon as possible. Get involved!

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

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. WinCaps is a costed service, but YouTube is free. In this case, it was relatively easy to identify and provide subtitles. Do we need consent to do this?

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Dr. Al Solano

JANUARY 18, 2024

in Community College Leadership program at New Jersey City University and worked at Middlesex County College for 18 years in a variety of roles including professor of psychology and student success, director for the Center for the Enrichment of Learning and Teaching, first-year seminar course coordinator, counselor, and disability services provider.

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Ridgewater College

JANUARY 19, 2022

In her position, Schwandt will lead a new unit that will incorporate Disability Services, TRiO student support services for underserved populations, and community resources to help meet student basic needs. She’ll also advise international students and manage services for military and veteran students.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JULY 3, 2019

Andy’s remit includes leading strategically on student wellbeing and tackling sexual violence, and responsibility for the Counselling Service, the Student Disability Service, the Chaplaincy and the University Pharmacy, as well as for relationships with the University Health Centre.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 1, 2022

The fully accessible centre houses the main bases for Student Counselling , Student Disability Service , the Equally Safe team, the University Health Centre , and an independent pharmacy. These are trends that have certainly been exacerbated by the Covid pandemic over the past two and a half years.

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

JANUARY 11, 2022

“Key takeaways from mental health training” (October 2020): [link] Teaching fellow, Omar Kaissi, reflects on the value of completing a mental health training session organised jointly by the University’s Student Counselling and Student Disability services.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

JUNE 13, 2024

It is worth noting here that reference to “inclusive teaching practices” encompasses the diversity of the whole range of protected characteristics (and their intersectionalities) under the Equality Act 2010 , not just disability (for example, race, gender, religious belief). Within the framework of AFPP 3.0,

Support Services 52

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Teaching Matters Academic Communities

MAY 30, 2023

I have been trying to gather crumbs around this issue in Asian contexts, and to my dismay, the only evidence I could find was a policy paper on the employability of persons with “visible” disabilities ( Tan et al., Somehow, hidden disabilities have become an exclusive ‘student issue’ ( Saltes, 2022 ).

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Teaching Matters Online Learning

AUGUST 7, 2023

The University’s transformation in Student Support seeks to drive up the quality of student experience and places community building and belonging as central to its success. Peer Support allows students the agency to be active participants in their support and without it, we cannot facilitate the Student Partnership. This provides the why.

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Teaching Matters Academic Support

AUGUST 31, 2020

The team comprises Viki Galt as Disability Information Officer with Christopher Maclachlan as Deputy. The Disability Information team helps ISG meet any requisite legislative duties, alongside ensuring it is an exemplar of good practice with regards accessibility and support for disabled users and staff.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Those credentials catapulted McManus into the world of education, where she has made it her focus and mission to help serve students, particularly those with disabilities. She served for nearly nine years as the university’s director of disability services.

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AIFS Abroad

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Democratic senators expressed particular concern about the potential dismantling of the Education Department and its impact on civil rights enforcement and disability services in higher education. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) The HELP panel is scheduled to vote on advancing her nomination to the full Senate floor next Thursday.

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