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"We're Not the Gods of Accommodations": Disability Resource Professionals and Accommodation Decision-Making
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Strimel, Morgan M.; Francis, Grace L.; Duke, Jodi M. – Journal of College Student Development, 2023
In institutions of higher education, disability resource professionals (DRPs) have the responsibility of upholding compliance with federal legislation regarding college students with disabilities. Specifically, DRPs are tasked with determining reasonable accommodations to ensure access to all aspects of the campus community while simultaneously…
Descriptors: Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers, Academic Accommodations (Disabilities), Compliance (Legal)
Strategies for Addressing Mental Health Support on Campus. NASPA Policy and Practice Series. Issue No. 4
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Wesley, Alexa – NASPA - Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education, 2019
This issue of "Policy and Practice" offers counselors and student affairs professionals strategies to effectively support the mental health needs of today's students. Students require transparent, connected, and flexible systems that meet the full range of mental health needs. To achieve such systems, institutions must have a robust…
Descriptors: Mental Health, Student Needs, Student Personnel Services, Student Personnel Workers
From Discrepancy Evaluation to Response to Intervention (RTI): Are We Ready in Higher Education?
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Wheeler, Starr L. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
At the postsecondary and secondary levels of education, students with learning disabilities are by law entitled to reasonable accommodation in support of their education. Secondary and postsecondary institutions as disability service providers are required to follow guidelines and direction to make this accommodation possible. Yet as these…
Descriptors: Response to Intervention, Learning Disabilities, Attitudes toward Disabilities, Higher Education
Learning Disability Documentation Decision Making at the Postsecondary Level
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Madaus, Joseph W.; Banerjee, Manju; Hamblet, Elizabeth C. – Career Development for Exceptional Individuals, 2010
Students with learning disabilities (LD) transitioning from secondary school to postsecondary education must submit documentation verifying the existence of a disability and that describes a current and substantial limitation to learning. Preparing acceptable documentation can be a challenge for secondary personnel because of differing laws at the…
Descriptors: Learning Disabilities, College Bound Students, Documentation, Federal Legislation
Using "Learning Reconsidered" to Reinvent Disability Education
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Myers, Karen A. – About Campus, 2008
"Who is responsible for developing, ensuring, and assessing learning outcomes--student affairs, academic affairs, or both?" This question yielded a spirited debate between faculty members and student affairs professionals in the author's course Disability in Higher Education and Society. The author was prompted to learn more about this…
Descriptors: Attitudes toward Disabilities, Student Experience, Student Personnel Services, Outcomes of Education
Compliance of Postsecondary Institutions with Provisions for Disabled Students Mandated by the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973.
Williams, Joan M.; Hodinko, Bernard A. – 1988
Perceptions were obtained from 480 college student services officers concerning compliance of their employing institutions with selected provisions of the Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 and the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (specifically Section 504). The survey instrument presented a statement from each of 24 provisions of the two Acts.…
Descriptors: Accessibility (for Disabled), Architecture, College Buildings, College Students