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Until this training, I would of had never realized how much information there is about this subject. This training will help me to be a better instructor. Being informed and knowledgeable about this subject is the goal.
The student must take responsibility for requesting accomadations if needed. An emotional support animal is NOT a service animal. Despite appropriate accomadations if the student breaks a rule such as cheating on a test the student is subject to the same disipline as any other student.
It is important for us as educators to be aware of ones specific disability. Everyone deserves the chance to be succesful in their education. One thing Ihave learned in my own classroom is that if a student is having struggles with the materail and their is another student who is bilingual. See if the other student is willing to help their classmate. I have seen a growth in the student who was struggling.
GWard
Accommodations need to be made for students with disabilities, however, they are still held to the same standards of other students. Accommodations are not made for cheating for example. Emotional support animals are not service animals and accomodations do not need to be made for those students. I have learned a lot from this module. Students that are ESL also do not need to be accommodated based solely on their inability to process the text and answers within the allotted time frame for taking a test. Accommodations are also based on a case by case basis, but they all need to be taken into proper consideration. Just because one accomodation Was allowed with a student, doesn't mean the same accomodation needs to be made for another student, as long as both cases were reviewed thoroughly.
Seth Soronnadi
Learned that "The most recent guidance from the Department of Justice makes it clear that an animal that provides only comfort or emotional support for its owner is an "emotional support animal," not a service animal. The presence of the cat would not be protected under the law. "
I found the Asperger's example very helpful in understanding that services can be given to help control a student's behavior, but that the student still needs to control the bhavior ultimately.
Acomadations for people with disibillitys is always evolving. It is our responsabillity to keep current with new develepments.
Momentary disabillitys are not considered disabillitys. Eagel acsess must be available to stuents with disibillitys
Any instatution with students getting federal grants must comly with the ADA reqierments
I discovered that there are some nuances as applied to each case. If there is a need then there should be an accommodation; if there is no need, then the school is not obliged to provide accommodation. This is a reall big piece for me. Also, learning about unreasonable accommodation was a huge ey opener. Sometimes, the insitution might not have the budget to implement certain accommodations for her students with disabilities; the government is realized this.
The nunaces make us realize that students living with disbility want to be able to do their own due diligence and be responsible for themselves. They make it not because they were allowed to but because they were givien an opportunity to work for it.
I have learned there are so many variations of the disablities and some of the hardest to address are the behavioral ones- especiallay when you don't neceasarily see the disability physically. There are so many layers to address and reading through these articles helps to create a starting place of peeling back some of these layers and have some understanding of the every day difficulties faced by many students.
Gloria Vance
I've learned that Federal Laws does not promise accommodation to students with disabilities, It simply promise protection from discrimination on the basis of disability. Everyone has the right to Equal Opportunity.
I appreciated the breakdown in detail regarding the rights of students with disabilities and what they are entitled to and not entitled to based on 504 and ADA. The breakdown of institutional responisibilities was also very helpful.
Disability covers a wide umbrella of conditions. Usually people think about physical disabilities when the term "disabled" is brought up because that is clearly visible. However, the mental conditions that affect individuals' performance has raised a new awareness and as educators we need to be cognizant of this. ADA provides accomodation for the individual to have an equal playing field as non-disable individuals. For example, if a student has a learning disability or ADHD then extension of time with limited distraction can be approved. However, it does not guarantee a certain grade for the disabled individual.
I have learned students must request the accommodations before they are allowed and the student must do this in the proper channels.
I love how we have laws so everyone can have equal access to learning. I will work hard to ensure that everone who comes through our program feels and have what they need to be successful