Mar 10, 2016
Many students choose to serve while pursing their degrees and legislature accommodates their continuing service. A soldier’s choice to serve their country should not negatively affect their academic progress in college. If you have on of the many students on...
Feb 29, 2016
This week I was asked to write about disability services for our student veterans. At first I was stuck trying to think of how the process would be any different for this population. Then I realized that qualifying for disability-related accommodations is no different...
Feb 5, 2016
Auxiliary Aids and Services – for the many years I served K-12 students as an educational sign language interpreter, that’s how I was designated on the paperwork. Each Individualized Education Program (IEP) specified what services the student would receive to...
Feb 5, 2016
The Power of Visualizing and Creating Sensory Mental Images Visualizing and creating sensory mental images describes one of the most powerful comprehension strategies. According to Buehl (2007), “Comprehension involves breathing life experiences into the abstract...
Feb 4, 2016
The following video is a screen reader reading a PowerPoint presentation that does not have accessibility principles applied, notice the reading order, and how images were used to communicate content but skipped over. Then the same presentation slides are fixed using...
