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Chapter 1
Engaging Students With Disabilities in Remote Learning Environments
A change that provides support for a student, an alteration to curriculum format, equipment, or to environment which allows access to the same content.
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Facilitating Engaging Learning Practices: Teaching and Learning of Students With Disabilities During Remote Learning in Colleges
Lynne Orr (Walden University, USA) and Gamin Bartle (William Paterson University, USA)
Copyright: © 2023 |Pages: 24
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-6684-5503-6.ch001
Abstract
The chapter's purpose was to explore the experiences of students with disabilities during the unplanned shift to remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. A description of the experiences during COVID-19 from the perspective of the institution, the faculty, and the students were presented. Two case studies were presented giving strategies that support learner engagement, lessons from COVID-19, and giving practices for universal design for learning. The literature and case studies support further needs of students with disabilities during online learning. These suggestions were applied by using inclusive teaching and universal design for learning as instructional strategies for the faculty to address the needs of students with special needs. There are a multitude of lessons learned that will further assist university professors in teaching which fosters greater learner engagement, proposes greater accessibility, and allows for greater inclusivity to all learners and various teaching contexts within the college setting.
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Chapter 6
Don't Assess a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree: Considerations and Strategies to Ensure Equitable Formative Assessment Practices for All Learners
Supports for students with disabilities that level the playing field, and thus provide equity. Accommodations are generally grouped into the following categories: presentation, response, timing or scheduling, and setting accommodations.
Published in Chapter: Don't Assess a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree: Considerations and Strategies to Ensure Equitable Formative Assessment Practices for All Learners; From: Handbook of Research on Formative Assessment in Pre-K Through Elementary Classrooms
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Chapter 6
The Cumbersome Burden of Translating Policy Into Practice: Engaging Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CLD) Families in Special Education
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Chapter 18
Road Map for GATE in Creating Innovative Differentiated Approaches to Skill Development
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Chapter 58
Online Courses Accessible to College Students With Disabilities
Adjustments in the way students with disabilities access instruction or assessment. Accommodations do not change the construct of the assignment/assessment. Gives equal access to the content without “watering down.”
Published in Chapter: Online Courses Accessible to College Students With Disabilities; From: Handbook of Research on Modern Educational Technologies, Applications, and Management
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Chapter 13
Strategies for Efficient, Meaningful, and Inclusive Online Learning Environments: It's About Time
Typically, the decisions by individual instructors to allow variation in policy for individual students entitled to disability services recommendations in compliance with equity mandates.
Published in Chapter: Strategies for Efficient, Meaningful, and Inclusive Online Learning Environments: It's About Time; From: Handbook of Research on Creating Meaningful Experiences in Online Courses
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Chapter 6
Inclusive Education and Universal Design for Learning: A Road Map for Rehabilitation Professionals
Changing or altering existing lesson plans and/or assignments to allow all students to access the content; particularly so that students with disabilities can access content with their typical peers.
Published in Chapter: Inclusive Education and Universal Design for Learning: A Road Map for Rehabilitation Professionals; From: Handbook of Research on Critical Issues in Special Education for School Rehabilitation Practices
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Communicating Compassion in Pedagogy: Lessons From COVID-19
Providing students with the necessary tools, resources, and/or modifications to assist them in meeting the course expectations.
Published in Chapter: Communicating Compassion in Pedagogy: Lessons From COVID-19; From: Strategies for Student Support During a Global Crisis
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Chapter 13
Learning Disabilities: Preparing Students for Higher Education Through Guidance in Inclusive and Diverse Backgrounds
And modifications refer to changes made to the learning environment, curriculum, teaching methods, or assessment approaches to support students with disabilities in participating with their peers in general education activities and achieving academic success. Therefore, educators should consider the following questions, argued Pichla et al. (2006) .
Published in Chapter: Learning Disabilities: Preparing Students for Higher Education Through Guidance in Inclusive and Diverse Backgrounds; From: Closing the Educational Achievement Gap for Students With Learning Disabilities
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Chapter 7
Using Universal Design for Learning to Optimize Flexibility in Assessment and Class Activities While Maximizing Alignment With Course Objectives
Accommodations are a tool which embodies a human rights approach to inclusion. It amounts to offering retrofitting and alternate format to students who have a documented disability.
Published in Chapter: Using Universal Design for Learning to Optimize Flexibility in Assessment and Class Activities While Maximizing Alignment With Course Objectives; From: Optimizing Higher Education Learning Through Activities and Assessments
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Chapter 26
K-12 Online Education: Issues and Future Research Directions
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Chapter 10
PedsAcademy®: Using an Alternative Clinical Model to Foster Teacher Candidate Development and Identity
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Chapter 3
Accessibility of Technology in Higher Education
Modifications or adjustments to a task or an environment that allow a person with a disability an equal opportunity to complete a task or to access an environment. Not all persons with disabilities, or kinds of disability, require accommodations. Environmental accommodations include, but are not limited to, ramps, curb cuts, handicapped accessible bathrooms, accessible computer stations, touch screens, and light switches. Education accommodations include, but are not limited to, tape recorders, screen readers, oral tests, extra time to complete related course work, and notetakers and interpreters provided to students with disabilities.
Published in Chapter: Accessibility of Technology in Higher Education; From: Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, Second Edition
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Chapter 464
Online Learning as a Form of Accommodation
Provisions made in how a student accesses and/or demonstrates learning. The term focuses on changes in the instruction, or how students are expected to learn, along with changes in methods of assessment that demonstrate or document what has been learned. The use of an accommodation does not change the educational goals, standards, or objectives, the instructional level, or the content, and provides the student with equal access and equal opportunity to demonstrate his or her skills and knowledge.
Published in Chapter: Online Learning as a Form of Accommodation; From: Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, Second Edition
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Chapter 13
A Longitudinal Case Study on the Use of Assistive Technology to Support Cognitive Processes across Formal and Informal Educational Settings
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Chapter 14
The Year of Teaching Inclusively: Building an Elementary Classroom for All Students
Students with disabilities may be provided with specific supports, based on individual student need, to facilitate learning based. These supports or accommodations are outlined within a students Individualized Education Program.
Published in Chapter: The Year of Teaching Inclusively: Building an Elementary Classroom for All Students; From: Handbook of Research on Classroom Diversity and Inclusive Education Practice
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Chapter 8
Empowerment Through Self-Advocacy: An Aspiring Counselor's Lived Experience
Modifications made to a person’s work or school environment that allow them to perform the essential functions of their role.
Published in Chapter: Empowerment Through Self-Advocacy: An Aspiring Counselor's Lived Experience; From: Perspectives and Considerations on Navigating the Mental Healthcare System
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Chapter 11
Removing the Disability from Distance Education
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Chapter 1
Play Experiences in Early Childhood Education: Inclusion of Children With Special Needs
Adjustments to the instruction and environmental strategies to promote a child’s learning.
Published in Chapter: Play Experiences in Early Childhood Education: Inclusion of Children With Special Needs; From: Handbook of Research on Critical Issues in Special Education for School Rehabilitation Practices
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Chapter 6
Ensuring Technology Integration in the Classroom Leads to Increased Accessibility: Using UDL as a Lens
Set of tools, strategies and practices which address discrimination in the access to spaces, or the provision of products or services to individuals with disabilities, and allows these individuals to receive the support and assistance they require for equitable status. These provisions are offered based on a Human Rights approach, and are often guaranteed by legislation.
Published in Chapter: Ensuring Technology Integration in the Classroom Leads to Increased Accessibility: Using UDL as a Lens; From: Assistive Technologies for Differently Abled Students
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