Change is in the Air: Partnering with

Disability Services to Make Life Easier

DISABILITY SERVICES

B 209

TOMMA LEE FURSTKYM KLEINSMITHLORI CORRIGAN

Disability Services needs your help

DS is due for program evaluation– Not being done formally– We still want to grow and change

DS Mission Statement (partial)– 4. Provide leadership to the campus

community in the area of disability services.

– 5. Communicate with the campus community to provide information and resources about disability-related issues and compliance.

Disability Services needs your help

DS Mission Statement

–Without an “official” program review, we turn to you –How can we partner to follow our

mission, work more efficiently, help you and help students?

General Focus Today:1.Partnership between

faculty/staff and Disability Services. We need your input and value your voice.

2.Using technology to simplify communication (and our lives).

Specific Topics Covered:1. The Disability Services page on website2. Faculty– Accommodation forms—going electronic– Delivering tests to DS electronically– Online tests and extending time for individual students

3. Staff (SA/EM)4. Library5. College-wide

– Disability Services newsletter– Disability Services Angel page– Pregnancy issues

6. Other?

#1: Disability Services Page on RACC’s Website

Let’s look at:• What information/resources are there?• What information/resources should be added?

http://www.racc.edu/StudentLife/Services/DisabilityServices/default.aspx

#2: FacultyAccommodation Forms:• Current accommodation form• Student hands it to you• You sign and date receipt• You keep the form

#2: Faculty

Change is coming: Electronic accommodation forms–Sent to your email–Sent with email “receipt” required–No student handing you form–Advantages and disadvantages?

#2: Faculty• Delivering tests to DS staff for

students who get extra time• Current method—hand

delivery

#2: FacultyChange is coming:Electronic delivery of tests–By email (MS Word or PDF)–We could print and file test–May need it early; scan to Kurzweil–Our copy may not match your copy when printed

#2: FacultyExtending time for tests may become something you do more often. • Angel• My Math Lab• Mastering __________• IFT 110 (SNAP)• Other places where you need to

extend time?

#2: FacultyExtending time for tests may become something you do more often.

Can we simplify:Getting your password for tests? Knowing if you change your password?Assuring test will be open when student arrives in B 209?Contacting you for help in the moment?

#3: Staff (SA/EM)You have a copy of yellow step-by-step info sheet for students with disabilities.–Have you used this?

What else do you need?How can we help you interact with students with disabilities?

#4: LibraryChange is coming:

We’d like to install Kurzweil on at least one computer in the library.Kurzweil is text-to-speech software.

How else can we help you work with students with disabilities?

#5: College-wide partnership

DS NewsletterSent via email, once per semester.Take a look:

#5: College-wide partnership

About the DS newsletter:

• Have you read it? • What format would be easiest to read?• What is MOST relevant or helpful info

to include?• What is LEAST relevant info to

include?

#5:College-wide partnership

Consider a DS Angel page:• Are you on Angel overload?• Would a DS Angel page get lost

among the others?• Would you use it?• If you used it:–What information should be there?–Would a discussion board be useful?–Would you read additional articles?

#5:College-wide partnership

Students and pregnancy issues• Title IX issue– No discrimination based on

pregnancy alone• Pregnancy and medical

issues– Documentation housed in DS

#6: How else can we help make your life easier

(as you work with students with disabilities)?

Your suggestions for us:

What resources do you need?

Thank you for your input. Your

voice is important to us.

Please complete the brief eval

form. Feel free to suggest other

topics of interest.