Equity for Students with disabilities and impairments

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Equity for Students with disabilities and
impairments
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Goals of Equity

• To treat students with a disability or impairment
  fairly WITHOUT giving them an unfair advantage.
• To remove barriers to particpation.
• To give students with disabilities and
  impairments an equal chance of success or failure.

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What is Equity?

Alternative Assessments reader/writers, supervisors, additional time, separate rooms, ergonomic furniture, adaptive technologies, accessible formats
Adaptive Technology dictation software, text-voice software, screen magnification and reading software, dictaphones, ergonomic furniture, ergonomic computer accessories, FM hearing systems, magnifiers
Support people (11 and small groups) notetakers, study support, interpreters, behavioural support people, reader/writers, supervisors, workshop assistants
Flexible teaching
Accessible formats braille, electronic files, enlarged print, audio tapes, adaptive technologies and software
Accessible campus
Advocacy
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What is NOT Equity?
Too much help Too little help
The student cant possibly do that The student makes me uncomfortable
That poor student . . . What disability? Hidden disabilities such as mental health, cancer, chronic pain and fatigue, head injury
Give the student a breakthey are disabled
Do it for themit is easier
Why do we sometimes overcompensate? Sometimes
out of a sense of guilt or to make us feel that
I helped a student in need. Giving an unfair
advantage to a student with a disability is
nearly as bad as refusing a legitimate request
for an accommodation. What can the end result
be of overcompensation? If you do not use the
same standards to evaluate a students
performance, they can develop unrealistic
impressions of their talents and abilities.
Students with disabilities are entitled to the
same feedback, criticism, and good or bad grades
as anyone else. By overcompensating, you are
making life easier in the short term and much
more difficult in the long run.