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Accommodations -- Or Just Good Teaching? Strategies for Teaching College Students with Disabilities
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Bonnie M. Hodge, Jennie Preston-Sabin
Book Code: EC5606
ISBN: 0-275-95606-7
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-95606-6
176 pages, photographs
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 10/30/1997
List Price: $75.00 (UK Sterling Price: £41.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • This volume makes a significant contribution to increasing our understanding of a variety of issues confronting higher education....The book is not merely descriptive of accommodations recommended for students with disabilities. In most instances, the authors provide examples with a variety of effective strategies to address specific disabilites in and out of the classroom.
    —J. Staff, Program, & Organization Development
Description: Thirty-five teaching practitioners in higher education collaborated to provide this resource about the accommodation process for students with disabilities in the college classroom. It provides the educator with concrete teaching strategies for addressing the individual needs of students and a model illustrating the components necessary for student success. Additionally, to provide pertinent information about disabilities to others in higher education, the subchapters are grouped into eight areas that disabilities can impact in the learning process: attention, concentration, and memory difficulties; chronic health problems; hearing impairments and deafness; integrative processing difficulties; mobility impairments or motor control difficulties; social behavior disorders or difficulties with consistent performance; speech and language difficulties; and visual impairments or blindness.

Since the accommodation process is reinforced by federal law, the book also contains highlights of the law and how it relates directly to faculty responsibility. As a result of this, expectations of faculty are increased and teaching practices involving accommodation efforts result in more access to education by more students.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Making an Accommodation
  • Legal Issues Concerning All Faculty in Higher Education
  • Integrating Reasonable Accommodations as a Part of Good Teaching
  • Teaching Students with Attention, Concentration, or Memory Difficulties
  • Teaching Students with Chronic Health Problems
  • Teaching Students with Hearing Impairments or Deafness
  • Teaching Students with Integrative Processing Difficulties
  • Teaching Students with Mobility Impairments or Motor Control Difficulties
  • Teaching Students with Social Behavior Disorders or Difficulties with Consistent Performance
  • Teaching Students with Speech and Language Difficulties
  • Teaching Students with Visual Impairments or Blindness
  • Forming a Coalition to Promote Student Growth and Success
  • Appendix A: Key Federal Legislation
  • Appendix B: Accommodation Decision Making Process
  • Appendix C: Rights and Responsibilities
  • Editor's Recommended Reading and Resource List
  • Contributors' Recommended Resource List
  • Index
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