#Accommodations

Disabled In Grad School

DisInGradSchool

#UniversalDesign asks that you think about accommodations BEFORE you begin your course planning. I'm really passionate about UDL because I know how hard it is for students to secure accommodations

shira! (she/they)

shiraisinspired

Hot take!!! Students with disabilities should not have to ‘be our own advocates’ in order to get accommodations!!! We should just get them!!! And teachers should just honor them!!!!!!! Like,,,

Corina Boettger

Hi, please don't use me as your model to tell other disabled people they're not trying hard enough because "look at corina! They're successful despite their disabilities!" yeah I'm also

Disabled In Grad School

DisInGradSchool

Today, we're going to ask you to think about how your #university handles it when a disabled student's #accommodations are denied. #DisInGradSchool #HigherEd #DisabilityTwitter If you applied for accommodations from

I am so sick of inaccessibility of online courses. I am sick of not being provided a note-taker when my accommodations specify one. I am sick of professors not having

Disabled Academic Collective

Other TAs have asked me how to handle profs who refuse to give accommodations. Obviously report them to your dept head and disability services. But by denying accommodations the prof

Please. please. please can we stop acting like accommodations are disability justice?They’re the bare minimum. 2/ A lot of disabled people understand this implicitly, but there seems to be a

Nicole Lee Schroeder, PhD

A note to non-disabled people: don't question clearly stated access needs. Ever. It's not up to you to decide what a disabled person can/cannot do. Disabilities are dynamic. 1/5 Some

To my friends in education as a Muslim, a parent and educator I feel the tension too. During Ramadan...How much is necessary? Too much? Enough? Just right? When planning, assessing

jennthetutor 🎓 👩🏾‍🏫 #TestFreeNow

We are celebrating the 30 year anniversary of the ADA and today @APforStudents announced they have no real plan for students who need new or modified accommodations due to change

per the last RTs if you're an academic and students or staff you're supervising request or require reasonable adjustments or accommodations it's not for you to decide what to do.Your

Disabled Academic Collective

I was in a meeting today where a member of a commission on disability asked why students are allowed to get accommodations late in the term. Let me make it

Your Woke Aunty

Hard to pray 5 times a day as a Muslim when you can barely get out of bed or function at times. Would really like some Muslim mental health professionals

Alright, lunchbreak lawsplainer time, because this is getting ridiculous.HIPAA, ADA, and why you should just wear the damn mask, Karen. HIPAA does not apply to restaurants or grocery stores.HIPAA applies

maddie || BLACK LIVES MATTER

I have ADD and i have been told so many times that “you don’t need accommodations” because i don’t have ADHD which is “distracting” to other students. i experience the

Dr. Dawn Kaczmar

I've also heard instructors refer to students requesting accommodations (that they believe are suspicious for some reason) as "trying to take advantage"/"trying to get something out of" them. But what