Learn About
Universal
Design in
Education

We summarize our philosophy of universal design with a simple phrase:

Design Including People with Disabilities
is
Better Design for Everyone.

Universal design helps out people with visible and significant disabilities. Universal design also helps out people with invisible disabilities, temporary disabilities and people with mild impairments who might simply be at lesser, but some risk of failure. Like no other intervention though, UD allows people without impairments to take advantage of improved efficiency and effectiveness in tasks.

• People with good 20/20 vision often encounter dark rooms.
• People with good hearing must perform tasks where normal voice or sound does not carry like in a noisy place.
• People with no hand impairment must operate devices when their hands are busy because they are carrying a large item like a box.
• The best students may be busy taking notes so that they miss the visual information on a lecture slide that swishes by, not unlike how a blind student experiences the same slide.

We must provide disability support services to accommodate individuals. We also must provide universal design services to accommodate everyone.