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Following is a complete list of the 246 articles in the Conference Room Knowledge Base, arranged by student service covered. Select any of the following topics to jump quickly to a particular topic list. Select any article title to view the article.
- Advising
- Career Services
- Computer Labs
- Distance Learning
- Financial Aid
- Housing and Residential Life
- Libraries
- Other Campus Services
- Recruiting and Admissions
- Registration
- Student Organizations
- Tutoring and Learning Centers
- General
Advising
- Angela and Academic Advising: A Case Study on Accessing Standard Campus Services
- How can I help a two-year college student transition to a four-year school?
- How can students with disabilities get accommodations for taking the PSAT, SAT, ACT, and Advanced Placement exams?
- How can students with disabilities get accommodations for the GRE, MCAT, LSAT, and other standardized graduate or professional entrance exams?
- Jack and Course Substitutions: A Case Study on Academic Advising
- Planning Ahead: A Case Study on Student Performance Standards and Accommodations for an Internship
- What advice can I give to a college student with a disability to promote their success?
- What can disabled student services offices do to help students with disabilities successfully transition from two- to four-year colleges?
- What challenges do students with disabilities face as they transition from two-year to four-year colleges?
Career Services
- Opportunities! Newsletter: A Promising Practice in Postsecondary Campus Collaboration
- Roadmaps & Rampways: Case Studies of Success in Science
- A Work-Based Learning Menu: A Promising Practice in Recruiting Employer Partners
- Can employers use "at will" employment status to discriminate against employees with disabilities?
- Disability and the Culinary Arts: A Case Study on Access to a Person of Short Stature
- Disability Mentoring Day: A Promising Practice in Promoting Career Exploration
- Hien and Medical School Rotations: A Case Study on Accommodating for a Pacemaker
- How can I participate in Disability Employment Awareness Month?
- How can our career services office work with employers to ensure program access to students with disabilities?
- How can students with disabilities choose a career?
- How can students with disabilities gain work experience while in high school or college?
- Research to Practice: A Promising Practice in Work-Based Learning
- Serving Veterans Think Tank: A Promising Practice in Improving Civilian Career Outcomes for Veterans with Disabilities
- What are the legal issues related to making career services offices and employment opportunities accessible to students with disabilities?
- What can students do to improve their chances of finding employment after college?
- What is ENTRY POINT?
- What is networking and how do students with disabilities use it for career preparation?
- What is the Business Leadership Network and what do they do?
- What is Veterans' Preference for federal jobs?
- What practices are covered by employment non-discrimination requirements?
- What resources can help students with disabilities find and apply for jobs?
- What resources can help students with disabilities locate internships and other work-based experiences?
- When and how should a student with a disability disclose his or her disability to a potential employer?
- When is the best time to disclose a disability to a prospective employer?
- Where can I find resources about individuals with disabilities in specific career fields?
- Where is a federal "one-stop" website that links to disability-related resources?
- Who is responsible for providing accessible transportation to a postsecondary student's internship or co-op?
- Who is responsible for providing accommodations for student interns?
- Why should students with disabilities participate in work-based learning?
Computer Labs
- Alternative Access: A Case Study on the Benefits of Assistive Technology for Students with Temporary Disabilities
- How can I make my computing department more accessible to students with disabilities?
- How can principles of universal design be used to construct a computer lab?
- Professional Development for Web Accessibility: Case Studies on Higher Education
- Simple Solutions: A Case Study on Low-Tech Accommodations and Campus Computer Labs
- What are the main features of an accessible computer lab?
- What are the steps to take in making a school computer lab accessible?
Distance Learning
- Distance Learning: A Case Study on the Accessibility of an Online Course
- How can I get started in making my distance learning course accessible to all students?
- The University of Washington: A Promising Practice in Making Distance Learning Courses Accessible to Students with Disabilities
- What are some of the barriers students with disabilities face in distance learning courses?
- What are some steps that distance learning program administrators can take to ensure the accessibility of their courses?
- What are the benefits of universal design of a distance learning course for students without disabilities?
- What do distance learning professionals need to know about accessibility?
- What should I do when a student informs me of a disability and requests an accommodation for a distance learning course?
- Where can I find resources for making distance learning courses accessible?
Financial Aid
- How can a financial aid office make services accessible to a student who is blind or has low vision?
- How do financial aid staff assist students with visual impairments in filling out forms?
- If, because of his or her disability, a student needs to exceed the allotted time set by the school to complete a degree, is the impact of the student's disability a consideration for an extension of financial aid?
- Reduced Course Loads: A Case Study on Financial Aid Eligibility
Housing and Residential Life
- Campus Housing: A Case Study on Accommodating a Short-Term Need
- Can I keep a turtle in my dorm room as a service animal to accommodate my anxiety disorder?
- Does the campus need to provide housing that is accessible to students with disabilities?
- Here to Stay: A Case Study on Service Animals in Residence Halls
- In Case of Emergency: A Case Study on Evacuation Procedures for a Student with a Mobility Impairment
- Is allowing the use of service animals and therapy pets in campus housing considered a reasonable accommodation?
- What are my institution's responsibilities regarding the care of students' service animals?
Libraries
- As a library employee, am I required to find research material for a patron who is disabled?
- Electronic Course Reserves: A Case Study on Universal Access to Electronic Information in Academic Libraries
- How can a student with low vision read regular-print books in the library?
- How can I communicate with colleagues regarding making our library accessible to patrons with disabilities?
- How can library databases be made more accessible?
- How can printed resources in libraries be made accessible?
- How do I respond to a patron who asks for Braille copies of reference materials?
- Is it legal to copy material that is copyrighted in order to make the print accessible to low-vision or blind patrons?
- On the Shelves: A Case Study on Library Access
- What are issues related to the accessibility of a library facility?
- What are some considerations regarding library staff who may work with visitors with disabilities?
- What considerations should be made to ensure that electronic and information resources in a library are accessible?
Other Campus Services
- Are drivers responsible for assisting students with disabilities by carrying personal items such as books and backpacks or helping them enter a building by opening doors?
- Are postsecondary institutions responsible for accessibility at off-campus events?
- Equal Opportunities: A Case Study on Campus Transportation for Students with Mobility Impairments
- How can student services offices make campus events accessible to participants with disabilities?
- Let it Snow: A Case Study on Accessibility During Inclement Weather
- Opening Doors to Solutions: A Case Study on Self-Advocacy
- Removing Barriers: A Case Study on Classroom Access
- Whom do I work with on campus to secure accessible venues for meetings and events?
Recruiting and Admissions
- Disability Awareness 101: A Case Study on Students with Disabilities and College Admissions Offices Staff
- How can we create more accessible campus tours?
- Must postsecondary institutions provide accommodations for prospective student visitors or their family members?
- Reconsidering Policies: A Case Study on Hardship Withdrawals and a Student with a Psychiatric Disability
- Should admissions office staff refer all students with disabilities to the Disabled Student Services office?
Registration
- Balancing Student Needs: A Case Study on Accessibility of Registration Systems
- What types of accommodations might college students with disabilities need during the registration process?
Student Organizations
- DASA and Campus Accessibility: A Promising Practice of a Student Organization
- I am who I am: A Promising Practice in Disability Awareness and Community Building
- Must student clubs and organizations provide accommodations to allow students with disabilities to participate?
- The Equestrian Team: A Case Study on Access to Student Organizations
- Who should pay for accommodations that allow students with disabilities to participate in student clubs and organizations?
Tutoring and Learning Centers
- Are campuses required to provide tutoring for students with disabilities throughout their college career?
- Do campus tutors have to write or type work for students with disabilities?
- Mnemonics for All: A Case Study on Tutoring Centers and a Student with a Learning Disability
- What are some specific study skills that benefit students with learning disabilities?
General
- Are funds available specifically for captioning?
- Are postsecondary institutions required to purchase adaptive software for a specific course if only one student needs it?
- Are there computer keyboards designed to be used with only one hand?
- Can the information contained in graphs, charts, drawings, and three-dimensional models be made accessible to students with disabilities?
- How are the terms deaf, deafened, hard of hearing, and hearing impaired typically used?
- How can I create a club for students with disabilities on my campus?
- How can people who are blind access video and multimedia products?
- How can people who are deaf access video and multimedia products?
- How can universal design be applied in postsecondary education?
- How do I create online math content that is accessible to students who are blind?
- If a student with a disability qualifies for accommodations in high school, will they receive the same accommodations in college?
- In a postsecondary setting, who is responsible for providing Braille translation?
- Is my school legally required to make our web pages accessible?
- Is there a way to add captions to a video that is already published?
- What adaptive technology is typically provided to students with disabilities on postsecondary campuses?
- What advice can be given to teens as they prepare for careers?
- What are examples of accommodations for students with low vision in science labs?
- What are examples of psychiatric diagnoses?
- What are key issues for increasing the successful participation of individuals with disabilities in STEM fields?
- What are some low-tech assistive technologies that aid computer access?
- What are some of the functional limitations related to mental illness?
- What are some techniques for creating Braille math materials?
- What are specific types of learning disabilities?
- What are the NIMAS Development and Technical Assistance Centers?
- What are typical accommodations for students with health impairments?
- What are typical accommodations for students with learning disabilities?
- What are typical accommodations for students with low vision?
- What are typical accommodations for students with mobility impairments?
- What Internet-based communication methods are accessible to people with disabilities?
- What is a qualified individual with a disability?
- What is a mental illness?
- What is a mobility impairment?
- What is a physical or mental impairment?
- What is a reading system?
- What is a speech impairment?
- What is a traumatic brain injury?
- What is considered high quality disability documentation?
- What is DotsPlus Braille?
- What is NIMAS?
- What is Section 504?
- What is the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990?
- What is the National Instructional Materials Access Center (NIMAC)?
- What is the Rehabilitation Act of 1973?
- What legal issues are associated with access to video products for students with sensory impairments?
- What proportion of postsecondary students have disabilities?
- What should I consider when deciding what kind of adaptive technology to use?
- Where can I find interns and employees with disabilities?
- Where can I find resources about legal, social, and political issues related to disability?
- Where can I find resources related to brain injuries?
- Where can I find resources related to health impairments?
- Where can I find resources related to hearing impairments?
- Where can I find resources related to learning disabilities and Attention-Deficit Disorder?
- Where can I find resources related to mobility impairments?
- Where can I find resources related to visual impairments?
- Who is a person with a disability?
- Who is the Foundation for Science and Disability?
- Who offers training on assistive technology and the design of accessible technology?
- Whom should I contact in my state if I have a question about assistive technology?
- Workforce Investment Act (WIA) One-Stops: A Promising Practice in Providing Employment Placement Services
- Accessible Outdoor Table Design: A Case Study in Teaching Design Students to Think Universally
- Are there any web-based tutorials on web accessibility?
- Can an employer legally ask an applicant about current illnesses?
- Can I borrow captioned media for free?
- Connecting with Peers: A Case Study on College Transition for a Student with Asperger's Syndrome
- Disability Mentoring Day at the UW-Madison: A Promising Practice in Staff Training
- Do all postsecondary students with disabilities use disability services?
- Do colleges and universities agree as to whether they must adhere to Section 508 standards?
- Do TTY, TDD, and TT mean the same thing?
- DO-IT Scholars: A Promising Practice in Preparing Youth with Disabilities for College
- Does the provision of accommodations guarantee student success?
- Federal Aviation Administration: A Promising Practice in Employment of People with Disabilities
- Homeland Security 508 Compliance Office: A Promising Practice in Promoting Accessible IT
- How are the terms "dwarf," "little person," and "person of short stature" commonly used?
- How are the terms low vision, visually impaired and blind defined?
- How can nontechnical administrators ensure that the websites their employees create and maintain are accessible to people with disabilities?
- How can parents, family members, and mentors help young people with disabilities prepare for careers?
- How can people who are blind operate computers?
- How can people who have low vision operate a computer?
- How can people with mobility impairments operate computers?
- How can publishers create accessible math textbooks?
- How can students with learning disabilities benefit from computer use?
- How can switches be used by people who cannot operate a standard keyboard or mouse?
- How can universal design be applied in educational settings?
- How does a student who is blind learn to navigate around campus?
- How does Section 508 relate to the Telecommunications Act?
- If a postsecondary student's accommodations include extra exam time must I allow the student to take the exam outside of the classroom?
- Internships for Students with Disabilities: A Promising Practice in Fostering Positive Attitudes in the Workplace
- Is it appropriate for me to ask a postsecondary student what type of disability he has?
- Is there a difference between service and therapy animals?
- Kutztown University: A Promising Practice in Campus-wide Accessible Meetings and Events
- Missouri Southern State University: A Promising Practice in Developing a Successful Community of Practice (CoP)
- Must a service animal be certified?
- Must contracted transportation services at a postsecondary institution be accessible to people with disabilities?
- Nana and Engineering: A Case Study on Accommodating Mobility Impairments
- Opportunities!
- Software Compatibility: A Case Study on Assistive Technology, Accessible Course Software, and a Student with Low Vision
- Symptom Management: A Case Study on Addressing Medication Side Effects
- The University of Washington: A Promising Practice in User Group Support for Web Accessibility
- Tools and Techniques for Accessible Web Content: A Promising Practice in Webcast Training
- Universally Designed Webpages: A Case Study on Access Issues for a Student with a Learning Disability
- Web Access: A Case Study on Making Content Accessible to a Student who is Blind
- What access challenges might visitors to a web page experience?
- What accessibility issues should I address when planning student events?
- What alternative pointing systems are available for someone who cannot use a mouse?
- What are examples of science lab accommodations for students who are blind?
- What are examples of science lab accommodations for students who have health impairments?
- What are examples of science lab accommodations for students with mobility impairments?
- What are some guidelines for creating attractive and functional open or closed captions?
- What are some hints for communicating with individuals who have disabilities?
- What are steps to a computing career?
- What are Telecommunications Relay Services?
- What are the options for someone who cannot operate a standard keyboard?
- What are typical accommodations for students who are deaf or hard of hearing?
- What are typical accommodations for students with blindness?
- What challenges do individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing have in operating computers?
- What challenges do individuals with speech impairments face in operating computers?
- What does Section 255 of the Telecommunications Act require?
- What does word prediction software do?
- What federal laws in the U.S. protect the rights of people with disabilities?
- What is a "qualified student with a disability"?
- What is a refreshable Braille display?
- What is a virtual keyboard?
- What is Braille translation software?
- What is computer-based speech recognition?
- What is DAISY?
- What is MathSpeak?
- What is real-time captioning?
- What is sign language?
- What is the difference between accessible, usable, and universal design?
- What is universal design?
- What is video remote interpreting?
- What issues should a student with AD/HD consider when planning for the transition from high school to college or a career?
- What readjustment services are available for veterans?
- What resources can help faculty make their courses more accessible to students with disabilities?
- What specific challenges make it difficult for people with mobility impairments to operate computers?
- What steps do teens with disabilities take to STEM careers?
- What U.S. federal legislation protects the rights of students with disabilities?
- When requested, why is it important that I provide a reading list to the disability services office prior to the start of a term?
- When should assistive listening devices be installed in a facility?
- Where can I find a list of publisher contacts to request electronic text formats?
- Where can I find an engaging game to teach people about the Americans with Disabilities Act?
- Where can I find resources for nursing students and professional nurses with disabilities?
- Where can I find vendors who provide captioning services?
- Which states have technology accessibility laws, policies, and standards?
- Who is responsible for providing a postsecondary institution with documentation of a student's disability?
You may also find relevant articles in the following searchable Knowledge Bases:
- AccessSTEM - to help individuals with disabilities pursue studies and careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
- Board Room - to help administrators create a welcoming and accessible offerings for postsecondary students with disabilities.
- Faculty Room - to help postsecondary faculty fully include students with disabilities in their courses.
- AccessCAREERS - to help employers, career services staff, individuals with disabilities, and others make careers and work-based learning accessible.
- AccessComputing - to help individuals with disabilities pursue studies and careers in computing.
- Advancing Deaf and Hard of Hearing in Computing - to help individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing pursue studies and careers in computing.
- The Center for Universal Design in Education - to help educators and administrators practice universal design in their delivery of education.
- AccessIT - to help educational entities at all levels develop, procure, and use accessible informational technology.
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