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The Accessible Virtual Campus

Fieldwork / Internships

A clipboard, pencil, passport and set of keys.

Beyond our campuses, how can we work towards eliminating obstacles for our students? Included is information on international experiences, as well.

Instructional Methods
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Procurement for Accessible Goods & Materials

This posterette describes recommended steps to ensure maximum accessibility when acquiring goods and materials - custom or "off the shelf".

R2D2 Center at UW-Milwaukee

(Word Document) Good and Materials Procurement

(Word Document) Procurement Tips

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[Research-based] Environmental barriers and disability

A National Rehabilitation Information Center (NARIC) link and abstract to a focus group report of how people with disabilities encounter environmental barriers. The findings highlight the need for successful interchange between built environment professionals and people with disabilities before construction begins.

Gray, D, Gould, M & Bickenbach, JE

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Access Abroad

"The University of Minnesota is devoted to enhancing study abroad for students with disabilities. We hope that our site helps students, advisors, disability service professionals, and overseas staff create an interactive global community." Includes audio and video Access Abroad reflections and experiences.

University of Minnesota

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Coordinating Internships for Students with Disabilities

Good source for considerations & guidelines for setting up internships for students with disabilities. The Ohio State University Partnership Grant.

Dugan, Izzo, Knowlton & Murray

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Disability and the Culinary Arts: A Case Study on Access to a Person of Short Stature

A student with a disability shares his experiences with an internship

Washington University, DO-IT

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Field Work

Accommodation based. Provides guidelines to understand accommodations necessary considering the interaction of types disabilities and the varying environments people with disabilities will encounter. Provides brief test of understanding of topic

University of Washington, DO-IT

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Fieldwork - Environment - Strategies/Challenges

Tips specific to accomodate hard of hearing students.

Class Act: a project of the National Technical Institute for the Deaf, Rochester Institute of Technology (NTID/RIT), Rochester, New York

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Tools for International Education & Disability Professionals

Designed to support their Access Abroad student program, this webpage is an excellent source for program promotion and student advising. Includes case scenarios.

University of Minnesota

Instructional Methods

It took me several years of struggling with the heavy door to my building, sometimes having to wait until a person stronger came along, to realize that the door was an accessibility problem, not only for me, but for others as well. And I did not notice, until one of my students pointed it out, that the lack of signs that could be read from a distance at my university forced people with mobility impairments to expend a lot of energy unnecessarily, searching for rooms and offices. Although I have encountered this difficulty myself on days when walking was exhausting to me, I interpreted it, automatically, as a problem arising from my illness (as I did with the door), rather than as a problem arising from the built environment having been created for too narrow a range of people and situations.

Susan Wendell, author of
The Rejected Body: Feminist Philosophical Reflections on Disability