Center for Instructional Innovation and Assessment - Western Washington University's Teaching and Learning Center
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Accessibility
Resources at WWU:
- Accessibility at Western Libraries
- Campus Accessibility Map, WWU
- disAbility Resources for Students, WWU
- Disability Resources and Reasonable Accommodation Policies/Procedures, Human Resources
NOTE: WWU Faculty/staff members with disabilities who would like to arrange accommodations should contact Mika Greathouse in Human Resources. - Syllabus Guidelines, Center for Instructional Innovation & Assessment, WWU
Teaching Considerations:
- 5 Suggestions Concerning Disability, Accommodation, and the College Classroom, George Williams, The Chronicle of Higher Education
- Diversity and Complexity in the Classroom: Considerations of Race, Ethnicity, and Gender, Barbara Gross Davis, Tools for Teaching (Jossey-Bass; San Francisco, 1993)
- Recommendations for All Courses, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Teaching Students with Disabilities, University of California, Berkeley
- Teaching Students with Disabilities Guide, Yale College
- What is Reasonable Accommodation? Jane E. Jarrow, Ph.D., Disability Access Information and Support
- Working with Students with Disabilities, Disabled Travelers
Accomodations for Instructors:
- Accommodating Educators with Disabilities, Job Accommodation Network
- Accommodating Faculty Members Who Have Disabilities (PDF), American Association of University Professors
- See above Resources at WWU.
Universal Design for Learning/Accessible Course Content:
- Creating Accessible Course Content, University of Central Florida
- Universal Design for Instruction: Fact Sheet (PDF) University of Connecticut, Center on Postsecondary Education and Disability
- Universal Design of Instruction (UDI): Definition, Principles, Guidelines, and Examples (PDF), DO-IT, University of Washington
- UDL Universe, "Ensuring Access through Collaboration and Technology" (EnACT) grant via the U.S. Department of Education (see poster)
- Videos about UDL, National Center on Universal Design for Learning
- What is Universal Design for Learning? Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)
