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Learn how to address disability and behavior in the college classroom, including types of disabilities, communication methods, services, policies, and best practices. Understand DSS, confidentiality, and compliance, with sample forms and classroom policies.
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Welcome • Objectives: After completing this CBT, you will be able to: • Different disability types and accommodations. • Appropriate means of communication • Identify services • Recognize policies • Distinguish best practices
Confidentiality and Compliance What you should do: • Ask open-ended questions. • Use the student’s parents as an additional support system. What you should not do: • Do not ask closed questions. • Talk about a student without permission (or without the student present).
Sample Forms • Testing Accommodations • Assistance with Note Taking • Enlarged Print • Sign Language Interpretation • CART Real Time Captioning • Seating Considerations • Faculty Notification Form • Proctor Form • Rehabilitation Act of 1973 • Section 504 of the Americans with Disabilities Act
Classroom Policies & Accommodations • OVER-HELPING IF: • Giving more time on assignments. • Making accommodation decisions without DSS forms. • Giving student a grade he/she do not deserve. Helping If: • Providing DSS approved accommodations. • Holding all students to same academic standards. • Referring student to DSS when a disability has been disclosed.
Tips for Success Strategies for Success • Recommend students use notecards and/or post-it notes for questions. • Outline key points with Markers/Dry-erase board • Drawing charts, diagrams, visual aids • Focus on engagement, self-awareness, present-moment thinking • Develop a visual cue that encourages appropriate behaviors
Contact Information • Disability Support Services at 317-921-4982 or r8-dss@lists.ivytech.edu • Threatening Behavior • Contact Security • NMC at 317-921-4806 • LAW at 317-921-4303 • For persistent and unresolved behavior problems contact • Alphonso Atkins; Director Office of Student Conduct at aatkins24@ivytech.eduor 317-921-4669 Link to DSS website: http://www.ivytech.edu/dss/