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Accommodating Students with Disabilities: A Collaborative Campus Effort

Opening Day – August 22, 2013

Services for Students with Disabilities Kevin Jeter, Esq. Associate General Counsel, LACCD

Accommodating Students with Disabilities

Student Responsibilities

 Provide Verification of Disability to SSD

Office

 Meet with SSD Counselor to discuss and

request appropriate disability-related accommodations and services EVERY SEMESTER

 Inform SSD if there are facilitation issues with

accommodations

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The Interactive Process

Because we must treat each student with a disability as an individual case, we are required by law to engage in an interactive process to determine the appropriate accommodations for each student.

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During the Interactive Process

 Determine Educational Limitations  Discuss and identify appropriate solutions;

 Selecting an appropriate solution under the ADA,

(presumes the method of accommodation preferred by the student if reasonable and not a fundamental alteration)

 Implement the accommodation  Follow up as necessary to ensure the

success of the accommodation

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Common Accommodations and Services

• Enrollment assistance
• Priority registration
• Student educational

planning

• Special parking privileges
• Sign language interpreters
• Note-taking assistance
• Tutoring referrals
• Equipment loans
• Specialized academic and

vocational counseling

• Recorded Class Lectures
• Test-taking

accommodations

• Special classes
• Liaison with the Braille

Institute

• Access to assistive

technology

• Alternate text formats
• Learning disability

assessment

• Adjustable Tables
• Cushioned Chairs

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SSD Responsibilities

 Collect and Assess Verification of Disability  Identify reasonable accommodations and

services

 Facilitate certain accommodations  Support students (may involve enhanced

advocacy)

 Serve as a resource for Faculty (provide

information, advice and guidance)

 Promote best practices of inclusion for

students with disabilities across campus

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Faculty Responsibilities

 Put a statement on your syllabus about

disability accommodation

 Design with access in mind  Provide and/or Facilitate Accommodations as

specified on Student Accommodations Letter to Instructor

 Contact SSD if you have any

questions or issues

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Faculty Responsibilities

Sample Syllabus Statement

If you are a student with a disability and require classroom accommodations, and have not contacted SSD, do so in a timely manner. SSD is located in the Student Services Annex, Room 175 or call SSD at (818) 947-2681 or TTD (818) 947-2680, to meet with a SSD counselor. If SSD has already sent the memo to instructor confirming accommodations required by student for this class, please meet with me to discuss arrangements. This document can be made available in alternate format upon request from SSD at (818) 947-2681.

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SSD Documents for Faculty

 Letter to Instructor  Note Taking Assistance  Testing Accommodations Forms  Sign Language Interpreter Information  Adjustable Tables and Cushioned Chairs

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Recording of Lectures

Education Code Section 78907:

The use by any person, including a student, of any electronic listening or recording device in any classroom without the prior consent of the instructor is prohibited, except as necessary to provide reasonable auxiliary aids and Academic adjustments to disabled students.

(see Lecture Recording Contract)

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Keep Access in Mind

 Instructional Materials

 Textbooks 

Are there online supplements?

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Are they accessible?

 Websites – Are they accessible?  Film and Video - Are they captioned?  Forms/Handouts – Will they need to be enlarged? Brailled?

 Labs and Testing Accommodations  Co-curricular Activities

 Field Trips

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Is the location physically accessible?

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Will the student need auxiliary aids or services?

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Online/Hybrid/Web Enhanced Classes

All instructional materials must be accessible. This includes photos, videos, and audio files posted online.

 Photos posted online must be tagged with

alternative text (Alt Text or Alt Tag).

 Videos posted online must be captioned

(synched)

 Audio files posted online must have an

accompanying transcription (unless there is synced video or slides – these must be captioned).

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How to request materials be Captioned or Transcribed

 Consider DIY options

 MovieCaptioner (available in the Professional

Development Center)

 Youtube captioning

 DECT GRANT

 Contact David Quinteros in the Academic Affairs

Office – x2326

http://www.lavc.edu/virtualvalley/captioning- 1.html for more information

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Case Study: Louisiana Tech University Settlement – July 2013

Louisiana Tech Settles With U.S. DOJ Over Claims That It Violated Disabilities Act

Louisiana Tech University will pay a student a total of $23,543 in damages and make its Web sites and course materials more accessible in order to resolve allegations that it violated the Americans With Disabilities Act.

This stems from the complaint of a blind student who alleged that he was unable to participate in a University course based on the professor’s adoption of an internet-based application (used for numerous aspects of coursework) that was inaccessible to him.

More information at http://www.ada.gov/louisiana-tech.htm

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Legal Overview - Applicable Statutes

 Rehabilitation Act of 1973, Section 504

 Title 29, United States Code, Section 794

 Recipients of Federal Funds

 American With Disabilities Act, Title II

 Title 42, United States Code, Section 12132

 Public Entities

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Legal Overview - Prohibited Discrimination

 No qualified individual with a disability shall,

by reason of such disability, be excluded from participation in or be denied the benefits of the services, programs, or activities of a public entity, or be subjected to discrimination by any public entity or any program or activity (“college”) receiving Federal funds

 Title II of ADA and Section 504

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Legal Overview - What is a Disability?

 A physical or mental impairment that limits

• ne or more major life activities

 Major life activities include:

 Caring for one's self  Performing manual tasks  Walking, seeing, hearing, speaking, breathing,  Working  Learning

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District’s Legal Obligation

 In General:

 To provide equal opportunities to students with

disabilities

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Ensure equal levels of communications

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Afford the same benefits and services

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Provide instruction and services that are equally effective in affording the opportunity to obtain the same results

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Afford the same rights, privileges, advantages, and

• pportunities afforded to others

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28 CFR Section 35.130

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34 CFR Section 104.4

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Provide Auxiliary Aids – Section 504

 The recipient shall take such steps as are

necessary to ensure that no handicapped student is denied the benefits of, excluded from participation in, or subjected to discrimination because of the absence of educational auxiliary aids for students with impaired sensory, manual, or speaking skills.

 34 CFR Section 104.44(d)

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Provide Auxiliary Aids – Title II ADA

 A public entity shall furnish appropriate auxiliary

aids and services where necessary to afford an individual with a disability an equal opportunity to participate in, and enjoy the benefits of, a service, program, or activity conducted by a public entity.

 In determining what type of auxiliary aid and

service is necessary, a public entity shall give primary consideration to the requests of the individual with disabilities.

 28 CFR Section 35.160

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Legal Overview - Auxiliary Aids

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Qualified interpreters, notetakers, transcription services, written materials, assistive listening devices, open and closed captioning, videotext displays, or other effective methods of making aurally delivered materials available to individuals with hearing impairments;

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Acquisition or modification of equipment or devices

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34 CFR Section 104.44(d)

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28 CFR Section 35.104

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Qualified readers, taped texts, audio recordings, Braille materials, large print materials,

• r other effective methods of

making visually delivered materials available to individuals with visual impairments;

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Classroom equipment adapted for use by students with manual impairments

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Legal Overview - Exam Accommodations

 In its course examination of students with

disabilities that impair sensory, manual, or speaking skills, the recipient shall provide a method for evaluation that will best ensure that the results of the evaluation represents the student's achievement in the course, rather than reflecting the student's impaired sensory, manual, or speaking skills.

 34 CFR Section 104.44(c)

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Legal Overview - Program Alteration

 The recipient shall modify its academic requirements as

are necessary to ensure that such requirements do not discriminate, or have the effect of discriminating, on the basis of disability.

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Modifications may include:

 Extending the time permitted to complete the degree  Substitution of required courses  Adaptation of the manner in which courses are conducted

 However, academic requirements that the recipient can

demonstrate are essential to the instruction or are part of a licensing requirement need not be waived, altered, or modified

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34 CFR Section 104.44(a) Accommodating Students with Disabilities – Opening Day 2013

Contact the SSD

Got Questions? Call, email, or drop by Services for Students with Disabilities Student Services Annex 175 (818) 947-2681 ssd@lavc.edu

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