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Disability Services Handouts and Links

Listing of Featured Handouts and Links - by category

Many resources are described throughout the site. This page provides a quick list of many of the frequently used handouts and reference pages in one easy to find location.

General Awareness Building

• Disability Etiquette & Myths and Facts handout
• Person First webpage from the Center for Persons with Disabilities
• Disability Tips for PCC Personnel
• Models for Understanding Disability
• Context: Accessibility in Higher Education

Discipline or Population Specific Resources

• National Science Foundation Data on Students with Disabilities in Science and Engineering
• Journal of Postsecondary Education and Disability: Students veterans with disabilities
• Chronicle of Higher Education article on barriers that can be encountered by those who are blind

Handouts related to Transition

• Information for Parents of High School Students
• Information for Advisors
• Information for Student Veterans from the American Council on Education
• Disability Employment

Tech Training

• Live Scribe Overview
• Read and Write Gold
• Voice Recognition
• Voice Recorders
• Zoom Text 10 Quick Introduction, List of Keyboard Shortcuts
• Free and Low Cost Options
• Accessibility Features in Adobe Reader
• YouTube Accessibility Tips
• Technology to Support Reading and Writing

Policies and Procedures

• Accommodation Overview
• Service Animal Overview
• What PCC Staff and Faculty need to know about Service Animals
• Grievance Process Overview

Universal Design

These resources include handouts and links to resources with theoretical, practical, and research based information related to Universal Design.

• Universal Design from The Ohio State
• Universal Design 3 principles from CAST
• Universal Design 9 principles
• Community Inclusion – Annotated UD Syllabus example
• EnACT – UDL Syllabus Rubric and Research Briefs
• PASS-IT Universal Design Book (Free Download) and Video
• DO-IT UD Principles

Disability Studies

Intersections of Identity

Recognizing disability as part of diversity, and acknowledging positive aspects of the disability experience are important elements in fostering an inclusive community.

• Disability Studies Quarterly with Articles such as:
  • New Conversations in Disability Studies
  • Does Dis/ability Now Sit at the Table(s) of Social Justice and Multicultural Education? - A Descriptive Survey of Three Recent Anthologies
• Canadian Journal of Disability Studies

Language Choices

Note that this topic is an active area of discussion - there are definitely different opinions on this matter.

• Guide to Disability Language and Empowerment
• Using Person First Language

• Disability Services

  • New and Current Students
  • Faculty and Staff
  • Community Resources
  • Policies and Procedures
  • Event Calendar
  • Contact Information

 

Articles of Interest

Facilities ADA Regulations Compliance Requires a Proactive Approach

Ask us for ideas regarding our scholarly articles, research, or best practices.

Videos of Interest

It's Our Story Project

See recommendations for other feature length films, documentaries, shorts, commercials, clips, as well as artistic representations.

Websites of Interest

There are disability specific sites, discipline specific resources, and more. Contact us if you are looking for something you can't find.

UDL Universe provides access to research, practical approaches and more (Creative Commons)

AdapTech provides access to a database of free and low cost Assistive Technologies

Webinars & Archives

PCC maintains an institutional membership to EASI , which stands for Equal Access to Software and Information.