Reasonable Accommodations: A Faculty Guide to Teaching College Students With Disabilities
Published by The City University of New York Office of Student Affairs
Table of Contents
Teaching students with disabilities
Teaching students with learning disabilities
Teaching students with visual disabilities
Teaching students with mobility and hand-function disabilities
Teaching students with hearing disabilities
Teaching students with psychological / psychiatric disabilities
Teaching students with speech disabilities
Teaching students with other disabilities: AIDS, Cancer, Cerebral Palsy, Multiple Sclerosis, Muscular Dystrophy, Respiratory Problems, Seizure Disorders, Sickle Cell, Anemia, and Substance Abuse
Reasonable Accommodations: A Faculty Guide to Teaching College Students with Disabilities is published by The City University of New York. It was originally published by the Professional Staff Congress/CUNY in 1988 under the direction of Aaron Alexander, in consultation with a subcommittee of the CUNY Committee on Student Disability Issues and revised in 1995 and 2001.
Design: Olsen Muscara Design. Artwork: Janice Fried. Typing: Clare Beharry and Rosamaria Pedone. Printing: Labor Education Publishing Company. © 2001 CUNY.
Additional copies of this publication are available for $4.00. Make checks payable to CUNY, and mail to CUNY, Office of Student Affairs, 101 West 31 Street, Suite 907, New York, NY 10001.
Sources: The material in this publication is based on articles written and researched by members of the CUNY Committee on Student Disability Issues, and the following references:
Jane E. Jarrow, Title by Title: The ADA's Impact on Postsecondary Education (Columbus, Ohio: Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD), 1992);
Katherine Garnett and Sandra LaPorta, Dispelling the Myths: College Students and Learning Disabilities (New York: Hunter College/CUNY, 1984);
Higher Education and the Handicapped (HEATH) Resource Center, Factsheets (Washington, D.C., The National Clearinghouse Postsecondary Education for the Handicapped, American Council on Education);
Phillip S. Jastram and Guy C. McCombs III; Access for Handicapped Students to Higher Education (Washington, D.C.: United States Department of Education, 1985); Office of Civil Rights, USDOE, "Handicapped Persons' Rights under Federal Law" (Washington, D.C.: OCR, USDOE, January 1987);
Lynn Smith, The College Student With a Disability: A Faculty Handbook (Washington, D.C.: The President's Committee on Employment of the Handicapped, 1980).
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