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Disability Services for Students

The mission of the Disability Services for Students Office (DSS) is to create a barrier-free environment, to support and celebrate the uniqueness and individualism of students, and to challenge stereotypes and myths about disability. The mission of the DSS office is aligned with the mission of the college, fostering self-determination, lifelong learning and social contribution. The DSS office respects all people regardless of disability, economic status, gender, race, religion, political affiliation, ethnic background or sexual orientation.

For Faculty

• Web-based Training from Penn State: "In Their Shoes" (college ID = lakers)
• National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) Presentations
  • Students with Emotional Disabilities: Responding to Advisors’ Concerns and Questions
  • Connecting Students with Hidden Disabilities to Resources
  • Finessing the Academic and Social-Emotional Balance: A Revised Developmental Advising Model for Students with Learning Disabilities or AD/HD
• Universal Design - Universal Design for Instruction (UDI) is an approach to teaching that consists of the proactive design and use of inclusive instructional strategies that benefit a broad range of learners including students with disabilities.

FAME http://www.oln.org/ILT/ada/Fame/

Faculty & Administrator Modules in Higher Education
The Ohio State University Faculty & Administrator Modules in Higher Education (FAME) Project, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education, Award #P333A020033-03

An innovative on-line training curriculum for college faculty & administrators with an emphasis on teaching and accommodating students with disabilities. Includes the following five modules:

• Rights and Responsibilities
  Providing accommodations and effective instruction to students with disabilities
• Universal Design for Learning
  Creating instruction for a wide spectrum of learning styles and abilities
• Web Accessibility
  Building web pages usable by all, regardless of disability or method of access
• College Writing
  Helping all students overcome the challenge of written expression
• Climate Assessment
  Developing a welcoming campus climate for students with disabilities

The FAME materials have been moved to a new URL: www.oln.org/ILT/ada/Fame/ The Ohio Learning Network (OLN), our state’s distance education consortium, has kindly agreed to host FAME on their server. This new website is currently in the final stages of development and once completed, the FAME modules will be available for both browsing online AND downloading to your campus. Once downloaded, you can customize the FAME content to suit the needs of your institution – all we ask is that you cite the original grant in your customized materials (The Ohio State University Faculty & Administrator Modules in Higher Education (FAME) Project, U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education, Award #P333A020033-03).

We have developed and piloted the FAME modules with faculty, administrators, and staff at 17 institutions nationwide. Results from this piloting process revealed a positive evaluation of the FAME materials and their usability and timeliness on your campuses.

Fast Facts for Faculty Series:
In addition to the FAME materials, we would also like to remind you that our Fast Facts for Faculty Series of 12 publications continues to be available for free downloading and customization at:http://ada.osu.edu/resources/fastfacts/index.htm.These information briefs cover various topics such as Universal Design, accommodating students with various disabilities, web accessibility, and sign language interpreting in the classroom. For your reference, attached is a Microsoft Word document of how to cite FAME and/or the Fast Facts for Faculty publications in your materials.

Understanding Asperger Syndrome: A Professor's Guide
The Organization for Autism Research (OAR) released Understanding Asperger Syndrome: A Professor's Guide, a 12-minute video for use by college students with Asperger Syndrome as a tool to educate their professors, teaching assistants, and others about the disorder. OAR produced the DVD in cooperation with the Global Regional Asperger Syndrome Project (GRASP) and Pace University in New York thanks to a grant from the Schwallie Family Foundation. The video is available now for viewing and download at no cost on OAR's Web site.

"The idea behind this series," said Peter Gerhardt, Ed.D., OAR's president, "is to have adults with Asperger Syndrome in effect teach what it means to be an adult with the disorder."

To that end, the video features two people with Asperger Syndrome, Michael John Carley from GRASP and Kiriana Cownesage, a doctoral student at NYU. Dr. Gerhardt also appears, providing information on "reasonable accommodations" in the college classroom. In addition to being posted on OAR's Web site, OAR will post it on YouTube.com and produce DVDs to be available upon request via the Web site by early June.

FREE SCREEN READERS try before you buy!

• Demo of JAWS
• NaturalReader

• Information for Students, Faculty and Administrators
• The Principles of Universal Design