disabilities
The course is very informative. Information is essential to have when a students has a form of disability and the instructor can manage the student and class content and material without changing the way each student learns.
Eric,
While I applaud your commitment to recognizing and supporting individual abilities, I have to question the suggestion that "every person has some level of disability." We all have strengths and weaknesses, but not everyone has disability. To suggest that they do is to trivialize both the laws that protect people with disabilities and the effort it takes to persevere.
Dr. Jane Jarrow
Hi Miss Cathy Pereira
This course was very informative and interesting, every person has some level of disability and it up to the instructor to teach and work with the student to be able to accomplice the program. When a disable person register to certain course he or she has already the determination and motivation to accomplish the program what ever it take, it is up to the teacher to help the student and accommodate without any changes of the course, my self been physical disable for the pass 23 years and teacher for 14 years it is every a challenge but my goal stay the same teach the student the best I can there no limitation in the person except in our mind!
Eric Andre
Cathy,
The key is to have someone at your institution to whom you can turn, as an instructor, in helping you determine how best to support the student with the disability while still maintaining academic integrity. Since you don't see the actual student documentation, and since you aren't expected to be an expert on all forms of disability, it would behoove the institution to have someone available to you who IS such an expert. If there isn't someone designated at your school, you may want to suggest it to the powers-that-be.
Dr. Jane Jarrow
